At 12:44 PM -0400 9/26/00, David Honig wrote:
At 02:50 PM 9/25/00 -0400, anonymous@openpgp.net wrote:
Okay, so maybe I have just blown the lid off a plan that could save lives, but it is hard for me to imagine a scenario in which some terrorist will stop on his way to plant a bomb to e-mail the boss about that bomb's location. This looks to me like overkill, and I don't like it. Or am I the only one who feels this way?
Maybe some enterprising artist will place bumperstickers on the kiosks labelling them Carnivore II stations... or Echelon for our furriner friends...
Back in 1993, as Clipper was unfolding, I drew up a logo for use on such pieces of equipment: Big Brother Inside Done, of course, in the "Intel Inside" tradition. I understand that at least a couple of enterprising folks have had batches of stick-on labels made. Personally, I think it's a tempest in a teapot. _Of course_ using someone else's computers is a security disaster...this has been well-known for decades. If someone uses Coca Cola's kiosk, or IBM's kiosk, or whatever, then they can expect passwords to be unsecure. End to end encryption is the only real solution. By two years from now there should be more of this, especially on PDAs and WebPad types of devices. Now what would be worrisome, and unconstitutional, would be some sort of ban on such end to end encryption for the Games, or the participants, or in general. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.