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