Re: Contracts, Responsibilities, and Drug-Dispensing
I think the really interesting question underlying this whole discussion is how a minor child makes the legal transition to a competent adult. This issue comes up again and again. We see it in "parental consent" laws requiring parental consent for a minor girl to get an abortion. We also see it in issues like when a minor child may throw off the "protection" of products like SurfWatch. ObCrypto: When may a minor child say no to PAK (Parental Access to Keys)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet may fairly be | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | regarded as a never-ending | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | worldwide conversation. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
ObCrypto: When may a minor child say no to PAK (Parental Access to Keys)?
Interesting threat model... What can one do in the total absense of physical security? We've talked about mental cryptography before, but I think we agreed that it isn't very practical. Perhaps security through obscurity is a better solution here, since many parents are less computer literate than their children. Perhaps in the future kids will get non-removable tamperproof microchip implants behind their parents' backs. :) Wei Dai
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 15:15:26 -0700 From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Contracts, Responsibilities, and Drug-Dispensing
I think the really interesting question underlying this whole discussion is how a minor child makes the legal transition to a competent adult. This issue comes up again and again. We see it in "parental consent" laws requiring parental consent for a minor girl to get an abortion. We also see it in issues like when a minor child may throw off the "protection" of products like SurfWatch.
ObCrypto: When may a minor child say no to PAK (Parental Access to Keys)?
personaly, being legally a minor child (but only for 10 more months), i've never used programs like SurfWatch, and I don't really think i've been completely deranged by it. My parents don't know what I see on the net, and pretty much they don't try to regulate it.. Yet i'm still normal, I make good grades (ok, decent at best in some classes, but I do suffer from ADHD/Learning Disibilities), and I'm not some complete pervert. Sure, i've seen my share of porn, but everybody's seen SOME porn... anybody that says they've never done ANYTHING like that is either godly, or a complete social outcast who sits around and, as my AP Bio teacher would have put it, comtemplates their naval, all of the time. It just doesn't happen. The important part is that people be mature about it. --Deviant -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMeNQXzAJap8fyDMVAQEH6Qf8DQHPMFTlxcMuYArD834ImgSWCemCLAq8 UnNDyll59/6DLuIoTg5iYSfqRWFRi/9CGKicK6CtjxTBhwnuzbPTuYOAmIvMxlTM TViUVmXxjs/T5MDCvhJUxVD28V1Yg5jLK34U55HK+OlTPn79mEmixYQM/9ulNz91 3EJtXR9LGa5L/CFbX+kbC4MTH4BBsWR7GoUHOhFeICuFplX1GU1WrUgjIwh+OhqL BLBqkYIRpuJv7T1J4LWY8l0g3eTRnxALeAjIvlv7wEHush4f4uvO5NRFs4Q5AN2n J6q+xU8ckV5mVSbG1qPVXEIxqtJk0kCZo4iDgNzD0RwJ5x/hqLNmxw== =Yd2H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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