| Bill Jonas on Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:16:37 -0400 |
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:29:51AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Don't knock it.
I didn't mean to give the impression that I was. There are a variety of
very real privacy/security/other/etc threats out there, some of which we
know about and some of which we don't. I take the threat of such things
seriously, although there are some eventualities which I do not (yet)
think it necessary to guard against, as there comes a point (as
demonstrated by the ACM link earlier) that increasing measures of
security require extraordinarily greater levels of inconvenience for
extraordinarily lesser levels of return. I mean, ultimately, your trust
gets placed *somewhere*; it's just a matter of where and how soon. (Can
you *really* *trust* your computer?)
I just intended to illustrate that if we appeared excessively paranoid,
those impressions are unfounded by comparison. :)
> ("Cryptonomicon" provides a good example of a forced favorable
> situation... but even the Feds renting the apartment on the other side
> of the wall against which your monitor sits would be good enough.)
Great. Thanks for getting me thinking about that. I don't know who, if
anyone, moved into the adjoining apartment against the wall by which my
monitor sits. ;^)
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Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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