Cox Crow
Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
Friday, December 20, 2002Super Snoops
This recommendation from the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board is a dumb idea. Will I have to encrypt e-mail to my grandmother just because I mention that the Shrub should have dribbled down his father's leg? Will I have to use my secret decoder ring every time I spout off to my dad that Ashcroft has no understanding of Biblical prophecy and its relevancy to now, that he's a tool attempting to bring about the Apocalypse? And if I do encrypt, will that be illegal as well? Because, if I encrypt, then all you can know about me is where the packet came from, and where it is going, and even that can be obfuscated.At a presentation at LotuSphere '97, Charlie Kaufman, joking about the various levels of encryption in Lotus Notes, said that the special French edition was because the French government doesn't trust the citoyens.
In a different context, Aaron Swartz asks Would you like to live in that world?
12:14:36 PM # Google It!
categories: Politics, Security
Just a Bunch of Links
- Articles on smallpox at the New England Journal of Medicine, mentioned on NPR
- Hal Varian's article on online sales data which referred to the Internet Competitiveness Index
- Would restrictions on deep-linking make the former improbable?
- The Mideast: A Century of Conflict, an NPR special report. NPR is making all programs related to the Current Unpleasantness freely available.
- PLATO
11:15:06 AM # Google It!
I guess this kind of customer isn't particular to Greenwich, Connecticut, after all.
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Corporate Standards
If you burn yourself with your laptop are you entitled to worker's compensation? I came perilously close last night. If it weren't for the little problem of corporate hardware standards, I'd love to have something that won't burn a hole through my pants. Tom Yager's lucky.9:40:26 AM # Google It!
categories: Law
