Xref: utzoo comp.org.eff.talk:2489 alt.privacy:735 alt.censorship:2427 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!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: 1 Jun 91 16:44:28 GMT References: <1991May24.225008.6510@unlinfo.unl.edu> <1991May28.050807.18871@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) Organization: Traveller Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: mikea@casbah.acns.nwu.edu's message of 28 May 91 05: 08:07 GMT Me: >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. Michael Atkinson: I have a few files on my hard drive that I don't care for others to see. I have .ZIPed them with encryption, which on a MS-DOS machine with PKZIP is fairly easy to do. Maybe somebody with a serious decryption program could figure out that it is zipped (has inoccuous .ext) and could figure out my key, but it isn't *that* sensitive. Good, because any time you display the text (or whatever) in those files on your screen, you're broadcasting it to the world (or at least everybody in a several block radius with some fairly trivial equipment). [Assuming you're using a CRT display.] Raul Rockwell