I have received a lot of comment about my request for OS/2 encryption...perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I have already taken precautions (have been, for over a year) to protect my private documents and email via use of PGP. I simply wanted to improve the security of my home system overall. I have been alarmed to see how, in the Wollersheim and Penney court cases, the Church of Scientology was able to sue people, take custody of their computers, and basically trash their hard drives. Frankly, I've worked too damned hard on getting my system just right to have some bozo blunder in and erase things, either through stupidity, cupidity, or maliciousness. *That's* why I inquired about disk security. Not because I'm trying to hide something from Scientology...but because I don't appreciate people messing around with something that I've worked very hard on. Deana M. Holmes mirele@xmission.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT d- s++ a C++ U P L E- W++ N++ o-- K++ w--- O++ PS++ PE-- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X-- R- tv-- b++ DI++ D++ G e++++ h+ r* x++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
On Sat, 20 Apr 1996 mirele@xmission.com wrote:
I have received a lot of comment about my request for OS/2 encryption...perhaps I didn't make myself clear.
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*That's* why I inquired about disk security. Not because I'm trying to hide something from Scientology...but because I don't appreciate people messing around with something that I've worked very hard on.
Not to get too out of hand, but how is encryption going to prevent deletions?
Deana M. Holmes mirele@xmission.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT d- s++ a C++ U P L E- W++ N++ o-- K++ w--- O++ PS++ PE-- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X-- R- tv-- b++ DI++ D++ G e++++ h+ r* x++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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In <Pine.SUN.3.91.960421035428.21453D-100000@polaris.mindport.net>, on 04/21/96 at 03:55 AM, Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> said:
On Sat, 20 Apr 1996 mirele@xmission.com wrote:
I have received a lot of comment about my request for OS/2 encryption...perhaps I didn't make myself clear.
[...]
*That's* why I inquired about disk security. Not because I'm trying to hide something from Scientology...but because I don't appreciate people messing around with something that I've worked very hard on.
Not to get too out of hand, but how is encryption going to prevent deletions?
Well, anything to slow them down. It was reported to me that when Dennis Erlich was raided last year, they rendered his computer unbootable because of the deletions they had made. As it is, I haven't been able to find an appropriate security utility beyond PGP (which I've been using for over a year anyway). So this discussion is moot. Look folks. *This* is what it's about. I like a little humour. So what I've been doing is taking *posted* documents and running them through a filter (the "encheferizer" of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork) and then reposting them to alt.religion.scientology. I have been doing this for over a year. It's only been recently that (a) the Church <spit> started cancelling them and (b) that they started threatening me over it. And then the humourless gits of the Church <spit> went to the trouble to get an attorney in New York City to threaten me. I'm taking the threat very seriously. This (looking for more secure ways to keep my computer from being trashed) is part of it. (If people would like to read the letter I received from the Church <spit>, either read alt.religion.scientology, where it has been posted, or email me and I will send you a copy.) Deana M. Holmes mirele@xmission.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT d- s++ a C++ U P L E- W++ N++ o-- K++ w--- O++ PS++ PE-- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X-- R- tv-- b++ DI++ D++ G e++++ h+ r* x++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
(If people would like to read the letter I received from the Church <spit>, either read alt.religion.scientology, where it has been
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 21-Apr-96 Re: OS/2 encryption by mirele@xmission.com posted, or ema
il me and I will send you a copy.)
I have excerpts from the letter and some other background on the recent Sciento threats at: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/fight-censorship/dl?thread =Scientology's+legal+fishing+expedition,+expanded+enemies+list& after=2259 But for more detailed treatment, Ron Newman's web page is the place to look: http://kalypso.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html -Declan
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