RE: [spam score 5.00/10.0 -pobox] RE: Spoliation cites
jamesd@echeque.com[SMTP:jamesd@echeque.com] wrote:
I am unable to reconcile Black Unicorn's recent post, where he denounces almost the entire cypherpunk program as illegal by current legal standards and a manifestation of foolish ignorance of the law and obstinate refusal to take his wise advice, with the conjecture that Black Unicorn is aware of current recommended best practice in record keeping.
I've mostly been staying out of this stormy little teacup, but I'll concur that BU is overreaching himself. When he starts to claim that writing security software to best industry practices - erasing sensitive data as soon as it's need has passed, clearing disks and buffers, etc - all practices mandated for meeting certain government FIPS levels, and widely documented as standard - when he claims that writing programs correctly could get me in trouble - then it's time to downgrade my estimates of his knowledge and expertise.
Peter Trei
You guys are acting like Uni said, "THOU SHALT NOT WRITE CODE." Put down your pungi sticks. ~Aimee
-- On 7 Aug 2001, at 0:36, Aimee Farr wrote:
You guys are acting like Uni said, "THOU SHALT NOT WRITE CODE."
That is what he did say: This thread started when someone proposed publishing thought crimes into an irretrievable medium such as freenet in order to render moot any future court orders to hand over all copies of some item of forbidden knowledge. Unicorn condescendingly explained that would be illegal, but with suitable mystic legal incantation it would be legal to escrow the forbidden information with some offshore lawyer. Which is of course total bunkum -- for the court can be as unamused by one act as the other, but the act that requires more explanations and legal documents gives them more handles to undo it and more reasons to put one in prison, and more inconvenient knowledge about one's affairs and activities, generates more legal costs, and puts one in front of the unamused judge for longer, giving one more opportunities to get into deeper trouble. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 4yvbwk+eYBStv1fohR52VeVtDMsVDz8BuOccrL60 4JnCvupJX0Zpf+njUZbnjhE65hs9Lj9mDDDSGk4UN
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