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From: eben@mmsac.UUCP (Eben R.S. Visher)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing
Message-ID: <1393@helios.mmsac.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 21:20:42 GMT
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Organization: Martin Marietta Data Systems, Sacramento
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In-reply-to: root@yale.UUCP's message of 17 Jul 89 20:48:59 GMT

Scott Horne hit it on the head: read permission to my files is
implicit permission to browse.  I occasionally remind my professional
colleagues that if they think there is something useful to them among
my letters, logs, programs, indexes, and trivia, then they should by
all means make use of it.

I work with professional software people, and Scott's approach is our
rule of thumb among ourselves:  if you don't want it seen, then RSA or
DES it (of course, if you simply crypt(1) it, you're inviting someone
to spend 7 minutes with Crypt Breaker's Workbench).

--Eben

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