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From: Jim.Fraas@buscard.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Fraas)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Database Registration and privacy acts
Message-ID: <276.2831B536@buscard.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 15 May 91 12:15:00 GMT
Organization: The Business Card (BBS), Lawrence, MA - Data: 508-682-1782 HST
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In a message to All <05-14-91 06:53> Brad Templeton wrote:

BT> Message-ID: <1991May14.040427.10453@looking.on.ca>
BT> Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
BT> There have been a number of interesting points raised
BT> recently in
BT> news.admin and comp.risks that EFF hangers-on might want to
BT> look at.
BT> They involve some British laws about databases.
OK Keep going
BT> In one case a site has queried the database registry office
BT> about what
BT> databases must be registered.   (Apparently the law
.......
BT> They kept asking if X should be registered and always got
BT> yes.  Examples
BT> of X:
BT>         The uucp maps and alias databases for sites and
BT> users
BT>         Hostname databases for the internet
BT> And speculation was that you would also have to register
BT>         The /etc/passwd file and equivalents
BT>         All E-mail mailing lists
BT>         and more.

Would this mean you would have to make avalable ALL passwords on a BBS to 
anyone who would want them? Like a hacker.....?

Thank goodness I live in the USA!  
 
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