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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: the Right of Privacy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.194009.11553@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 19:40:09 GMT
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- What all of this ``plain-text'' issue may mean is that there is an
- additional incentive for the development of more advanced means of
- accessing data, ala hypertext, and the like.
-
- If you start transmitting data around in such a "value-added" form, it
- may be that lawyers/judges won't be capable of reading it in its plain
- text form.
-
- If the plaintext form is incomprehensible to the average lawyer, and
- there is no "simpler representation", then it's no big deal to release
- the plain text.
-
- This is also an argument for using non-"standard" spreadsheet
- software, or something just incompatible enough with Lotus 123 that
- your "plaintext" spreadsheets won't read properly into most peoples'
- PCs.
-
- And it doesn't even directly involve any actual encryption... Wow, I
- should consider taking a patent out on "hiding data by using software
- features not found in Lotus 123, Excel, or Quattro Pro."
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