Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:2460 alt.privacy:708 alt.censorship:2405 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!socrates.umd.edu!socrates!rockwell From: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,alt.censorship Subject: Re: Prodigy charged with invading users' privacy Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 03:40:16 GMT References: <1991May24.225008.6510@unlinfo.unl.edu> Sender: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) Organization: Traveller Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: dogear!kharma!dave@isc-br!tau-ceti's message of 27 May 91 08: 30:21 GMT Dave Laird: I will always wonder what they really had in mind with STAGE.DAT, probably never will really trust them, and do not recommend that anyone with sensitive data on their hard disk call them without taking precautions. Gee, does this make me sound paranoic? nahh.. that's barely even security concious. People truly concerned about security don't hook their machines up to the outside world at all, run them in shielded rooms, do extensive validation on both the equipment and the software, etc. And if you were truly paranoid, you'd probably have the entire system rigged to be destroyed in case of an emergency, with armed guards and extensive surveillance of the surrounding area, and maybe a few mines, etc. etc. Raul Rockwell