-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199710240110.UAA09551@dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com>, on 10/23/97 at 06:05 AM, nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer) said:
"Big Brother or the Boss?"
Are you SURE that's a dichotomy?
Big Biz and Big Gov are almost inextricably intertwined these days. If dot-com pushes for snoopware, it is called CMR. If dot-gov pushes for it, it is called GAK. The real question is, if the interests of Biz and Gov coincide, and "real cooperation" is achieved, does it really matter where the idea originated? Either way you still have snoopware.
Well their are some basics that seem to get overlooked: Corporate Access to Plain Text (CAPT) - ------------------------------ - -- You work for the company - -- Any documents you create on company time are owned by the company -- The company uses PGP 5.5 to ensure they can decrypt *their* documents -- You know which documents they have access to - -- CAPT is flexable and can be adjusted to fit the security needs of the company. Government Access to Keys (GAK) - ------------------------------- - -- The governemnt works for you (at least in theory) - -- Any document you create are your own. - -- The govenrment want your keys so they can read *your* documents -- The government wants access to ALL your documents - -- There is no fleaxbility in GAK they want it all There is a clear distinction here between one haveing the ability to decrypt their own documents and a non-owner decrypting someone elses documents. This is the distinction between corporate access to plain text and GAK. The company *owns* the documents. They have a right to read them any time they want. If you don't want your *private* corrospondance to be read by others in the company then don't write them and transmit them at work. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNFCTn49Co1n+aLhhAQFcBAP9EY+myW2V+/OtXvr8mxbFuoQtIY2LIBbV gaSSUzkKdSX79t+kcXnyyyADqoHwA1FPrcfA+92l+1IgXq243tT+lwDY3G3cCU/S X6RBU0UbO9MUvc29LYcncr/nD30AoeN34qWMd3Pu6cwtgd3s7xZu0rdEQSww8nll SNAKogoJS9c= =e42J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----