Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!dawg6844 From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Important Petition/Technology Message-ID: <1991Apr12.151945.16623@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 12 Apr 91 15:19:45 GMT References: <14131@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1991Apr11.034720.26091@uncecs.edu> <14144@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <5442@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 33 mreid@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Melissa Reid) writes: >I have a major reservation about Data-PCS that I have not seen >discussed; if it results from a misunderstanding of the proposal, >apologies. >It sounds to me like you're talking about something like the >equivalent of hooking computers together by cordless phone. >(Yes, I know, but bear with me...) >Have any of you heard if there has been an outcome in the debate >about privacy issues related to cordless phones? Like, do you >HAVE any legal right to privacy for interchanges carried out >over cordless phone? The last I heard, the answer was NO! the idea, I'm sure, is that they would be extremely low-powered. People want to have cordless networks, ie: in an office, such that machines only need to broadcast 10's of yards, whereas cordless phones broadcast hundreds of yards. This would make listening in much more difficult. Incidentally, just because you run your network through a wire now doesn't mean its safe if someone really wants to know what you're doing. Equipment exists such that I can drive up outside your building in a van and tune in to the RF that your monitor is putting out and read what's on your screen. The only way to protect yourself completely is to turn off your machine and embed it in a block of cement and drop it in an especially deep ocean trench. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Dan Walkowski | To understand recursion, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. | you must first understand recursion. walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu |