[67341] in Cypherpunks
Re: Clipper III on the table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Fri Oct 4 22:52:26 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 96 18:33:27 EDT
In-Reply-To: <9610042054.AA22661@hydra.cde.x.org>
Stephen Humble <deeb@x.org> writes:
> > 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.
Well, no. I (and any other employer) should be able to specify that
if you do work _for me, you do it on either my equipment, or on
equipment configured and secured to my standards.
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