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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: What secrets do you have?
- Message-ID: <1ercp2INN5eb@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:52:02 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- Floating around on sci.crypt this past weekend, there seems to be another
- round of the taunt: "what secrets could an individual have which could
- warrant cryptography?"
-
-
- Let's try some scenarios:
-
- a husband and wife, separated by a business trip, talking intimately and
- privately (they think) over a cellular or wireless phone (or even a normal
- wired phone (eg., in a hotel))
-
- two members of any of the thousands of *.Anonymous groups (a.k.a. 12-step
- groups) in this country
-
- someone who is HIV positive, employed by a company which would fire him/her
- if they knew, talking to another HIV positive friend
-
- two free-lance engineers, separated by a distance, cooperating on an
- invention which will revolutionize <X>
-
- [borrowed from earlier on sci.crypt] an incest surviver getting counselling
- while going through the turmoil of the flood of memories when the initial
- memory log-jam breaks
-
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-
- It might be good to make an even more complete list. However, I believe
- that we need *only one*. Each of these is innocent. Each requires
- privacy. In none of these cases is it the business of any government
- agency what is being discussed. Therefore, they have no right to listen
- in. It is especially not good for any criminal organization to tap these
- conversations (phone, e-mail, FAX, videoconference, ...).
-
- As I said, all it takes is one. I've listed 5.
-
- Let's hear no more of this "what could innocent people have to hide?"
- nonsense.
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