-- On 2 Aug 2002 at 10:43, Trei, Peter wrote:
Since the position argued involves nothing which would invoke the malign interest of government powers or corporate legal departments, it's not that. I can only think of two reasons why our corrospondent may have decided to go undercover...
I can think of two innocuous reasons, though the real reason is probably something else altogether: 1. Defending copyright enforcement is extremely unpopular because it seemingly puts you on the side of the hollywood cabal, but in fact TCPA/Paladium, if it works as described, and if it is not integrated with legal enforcement, does not over reach in the fashion that most recent intellectual property legislation, and most recent policy decisions by the patent office over reach. 2.. Legal departments are full of people who are, among their many other grievious faults, technologically illiterate. Therefore when an insider is talking about something, they cannot tell when he is leaking inside information or not, and tend to have kittens, because they have to trust him (being unable to tell if he is leaking information covered by NDA), and are constitutionally incapable of trusting anyone. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Alf9R2ZVGqWkLhwWX2H6TBqHOunrj2Fbxy+U0ORV 2uPGI4gMDt1fTQkV1820PO3xWmAWPiaS0DqrbmobN --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com