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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing
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Date: 1 Aug 89 01:27:23 GMT
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In article <1393@helios.mmsac.UUCP> eben@mmsac.UUCP (Eben R.S. Visher) writes:
<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).

This is a perfectly reasonable rule for a group to adopt. However,
that doesn't mean that it's universal, or that it should be. There are
places where that attitude will get you into trouble.

And that's the whole point: unless you know what the house rules are,
and _know_ that everyone else understands those rules, then randomly
browsing someones files is wrong.

	<mike

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