Mike Ingle comments on his recently released "Secure Drive" program:

What's the BBS? If you want to, put up a notice or something. [...] encrypt the BBS itself, and set up a relay to power it down if an alarm in your house goes off. Then you are raid-proof.

In case someone isn't familiar with Mike's excellent program, it does for hard drives, what PGP does for messages. With Secure Drive (ver 1.0) you can set up a partition on your hard drive encrypt it (SecDrv uses the IDEA cipher for data and RSA for your pass phrase just like PGP) and access the encrypted drive from a TSR in your C drive. In my opinion, this is the best example yet since PGP of "cypherpunks writing code" because of the implications that this program has on privacy. (I'm using it to keep a personal space for my tax records, private correspondence, PGP dir, etc.), but Mike's suggestion for encrypting an entire BBS itself is a good point. What if *every* sysop encrypted their BBS with Secure Drive? His program is DOS freeware and available on the Hieroglyphic Voodoo Machine BBS at +1.303.443.2457 (V.32bis) as SECDRV10.ZIP. It is also available on soda.berkeley.edu I'm sure although I haven't looked there myself. This e-mail is also a shameless tag line promo! Know that it is I who waste that precious thing called *bandwidth*! +---------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | The zine for the inzane and [sic]: | still@ | popE x Mass = Accelerated_J e s u s kailua. | colorado. | An intelligent e-zine that investigates the cultural and edu | ethical issues that we who dwell in cyberspace confront... | E-mail me *now* to subscribe, submit, comment, or ping test! PGP Public Key = 4E4937 = AD 29 BE 28 5D 2B 77 BE F6 85 08 45 B6 2D 0B 36 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+