[67325] in Cypherpunks
Re: Clipper III on the table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Humble)
Fri Oct 4 17:16:08 1996
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 16:54:15 -0400
From: Stephen Humble <deeb@x.org>
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <oys0uD31w165w@bwalk.dm.com> (dlv@bwalk.dm.com)
Reply-To: deeb@x.org
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) sez:
> If I own a computer and some contractor is writing something on it
> for me, I should have the right to tell the contractor that I don't
> want, e.g., any unlicences software and any data encrypted so that I
> can't read it.
well, it's *your* computer...
> Likewise the gubmint or a corporation bigger than mine is free to
> say that there should be no data on its computers or its contractors
> computers that they can't read.
Whoa! Unless the service contracted for includes the use of the
contractors' computers, what business does the employer have poking
around in someone else's computer? I can easily see Big Brother
demanding exactly that, but He won't hire me under those conditions.
Or was that just a slip of the mind, assuming large organizations
should have greater powers than smaller ones? I do that too much
myself.
Stephen
