At 06:53 AM 4/21/96, you wrote:

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:

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On Sat, 20 Apr 1996 mirele@xmission.com wrote:

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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.

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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. [snip]

I really don't understand this whole thread. Deana wants an encryption utility to keep her data from prying eyes. Simple. The cypherpunks list is the last place I'd expect to see people question her judgment about it. Encryption will prevent someone from reading Deana's email and other private documents without a court ordering her to divulge her key. Despite whatever inference a court may draw from her encrypting data, it's a smart move, IMHO, when you consider that the "Church" has raided 4 people's homes with ex parte writs of seizure and hauled off their entire computer systems (people who received letters from the "Church" not very different than the one Deana got). When the computers were seized they weren't taken to the court -- they went straight to the offices of the "Church's" lawyers, where paid experts executed extremely broad searches on the hard drives. If you can picture your worst enemy poring through your hard drive, file by file, you'll understand why something like secure drive or SFS would come in handy. Encryption may prevent deletions -- if I remember right, it was alleged that the "Church" had selectively deleted files from one of the hard drives (I think it was Arnie Lerma's). If everything's encrypted, selective deletions based on content would be impossible. OTOH, Steve Fishman, author of the famous Fishman Affidavit, alleges that people working for CoS came into his house under false pretenses and deleted the contents of his entire c:\ drive. As for the free legal advice, Deana's very legal savvy (IMHO, based on my time on a.r.s.), so I think we can spare it. She's surely weighed the consequences of what she's doing. Rich ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon New EF zine "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause