At 4:25 PM 9/12/94, SAMUEL KAPLIN wrote:

It's highly doubtful that they could physically get to my computer without my knowledge. I service alarms for a living. I work for the company who monitors my alarm. I am the only person who knows the specs on my alarm. It would be pretty tough to conceal a court order to suspend the monitoring from me. Someone would tip me off. Plus the system will communicate with me via 2 other methods that no one knows about. Pretty doubtful.

But they *could*. It would involve a lot of work, but theoretically, they could, right? That still puts it in the catagory of "trade off." Besides, I suspect your situation isn't a common one. ;-)

I guess it depends on your level of paranoia or guilt. :) If I was just putzing around with the software, then I wouldn't be too concerned. If I was actually doing something illegal or confidential with the software then I would be greatly concerned. But under no circumstances would I consider that arrangement secure. If the cops nail this guy, he has no one to blame but himself. He hanged his own ass.

I don't consider myself "putzing" around with the software. Besides the fact that the more encrypted messages are out there, the less "suspicious" one becomes, I send things like credit card numbers and the like via email. Nothing that would embarass me, but not something I like to have floating around.

Then you have the possibility of people sending you secure messages on a compromised key. (The one on the Unix Box) In most cases, its not the technology that nails you, it's human error. Take for example the recent

Good point. Although I would hope that if I were doing something nefarious, I would have smarter partners than that. :-) Bob -- Bob Snyder N2KGO MIME, PGP, RIPEM mail accepted snyderra@post.drexel.edu PGP & RIPEM keys on key servers When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.