more on more on E-mail intercept ruling - good grief!! (fwd from dave@farber.net)

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: ("But your honor, it's stored for 1/60th of a second in the phosphor! It's a storage medium!"), etc.

Amongst the earliers RAMs were tubes of mercury with a pulse-generator at one end and a microphone at the other. The speed of sound provided the delay, the system required regeneration, like modern DRAMs. The fascists will define the language they desire, the technologists have to deal with reality. App level encryption with privately-exchanged PKs are the answer. Verification / reputation up to you.