In article <3aqh7e$lem@jpunix.com>, you wrote:
McGill students seem resigned to the fact that the administration will soon take away their electronic privacy by unilaterally changing the student code.
What do you mean? How does changing the code take away their privacy? Like an unauthorized "search and seizure"?
Some are now advocating the widespread use of PGP and anonymous remailers. A Web page will be created to allow non-experts easy form-based access.
Excellent! Maybe a few of them should start subscribing to the Cypherpunks remailing list to pick up a few more tips on PGP and remailing in general. (ie To: majordom@toad.com Subject: Subscribe cypherpunks mail list <========== in body of message) The McGill admin has likely screwed up by raising the students consciousness regarding encryption and privacy issues. A good analogy would be trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it...
... oh yeah, I bet in January we'll hear that PGP and anonymous email are prohibited on McGill computers. ;-(
Good luck to them then. PGP messages can be concealed in blocks of ASCII characters. And as for banning anon mail, how the hell are they going to do that???? But shutting down all the phone lines leading into the McGill computers?