From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 14:17:01 +0800
To: janzen@idacom.hp.com
Subject: Re: Vexatious Litigants  (was: SurfWatch)
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From:	IN%"janzen@idacom.hp.com"  "Martin Janzen"  9-MAR-1996 09:48:42.59

>ObCrypto, sort of:  What if the page were retrieved through an HTTP
>proxy which, unbeknownst to the author (and the filtering service/SW),
>deliberately removes or alters the PICS-Label or other rating
>information?  The author did, after all, _provide_ the "undesirable"
>material....  To what extent does the author's intent matter?  Must Web
>authors now add a digital signature to each page (including its rating
>info), to prevent tampering? 

	Good idea, and one that I should have remembered thinking of before
with my comments on a "rating-searching" search engine. If it's providing web
proxying on such links, including removal of potentially-exclusive ratings
would be a good idea. (Running the system on a secure server would also be
a good idea).
	-Allen