[725] in Cypherpunks
Re: Verifying Privacy as an Upload/AI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Jun 1 19:11:32 1993
To: peb@PROCASE.COM
Cc: extropians@gnu.ai.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com, fnerd@smds.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1993 15:09:53 PDT."
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 18:43:29 -0400
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
>> Since you stipulate human being copying and torturing (sounds like
>> tampering to me), I think this is not ultimate privacy.
>> When you call them, they can quiz you on your mental and physical health
>> to determine whether they should give you the keys...thus limiting the
>> ability of a torturer.
Oh, sure.
"Hi, Paul? This is Marc. I need your piece of my private key. How
am I? Just fine. But if you don't give me the password, the guy
holding the phone has some very unpleasant looking surgical equipment
and there isn't an anaesthesiologist in sight, so I won't be fine for
long. Just read it out loud, someone will key it in."
Need I say more?
Marc
