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- From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.230736.26014@cs.yale.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan27.174418.18400@ee.ubc.ca> <1k6ootINNs6q@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Jan27.221556.757@ee.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:07:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.221556.757@ee.ubc.ca> johnt@ee.ubc.ca (John Jay G. Tanlimco) writes:
- >In article <1k6ootINNs6q@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
- >>Why do they have that right? Why in the world do most countries have
- >>strict laws, and the telephone companies strict rules ablut tracing
- >>calls? The party certainly has the right to refuse to speak to you if
- >>you don't identify yourself, but more than that is an invasion of my
- >>privacy. I do not want to hand out my telephone number to any random
- >>person I phone. ^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Can you give an example on when you don't want others to know whose
- >calling?
- Yes. If I'm looking for price quotes on a product and call several
- distributors. I might very well not want to be on all of their
- mailing lists. (or dialing lists to be more precise).
-
- >The way I see it, those that don't want to let others know
- >who they are have something to hide.
- Why would you want an attorney present during questioning if
- you have nothing to hide?
- Why would you object to the police searching your house
- whenever they want it if you're innocent?
- -Ekr
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- Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S) rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
- Former chemist now CM400 mechanic ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
- Don't believe anything you hear.
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