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1997-01-09 - Re: IBM Key Recovery Propaganda on United Airlines

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: toto@sk.sympatico.ca
Message Hash: 1e4048bdbba0947e801d5453731ec61e60d81ba319fecf55019eb5e50ef3bb33
Message ID: <199701090120.TAA27868@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <32D4142E.CB8@sk.sympatico.ca>
UTC Datetime: 1997-01-09 01:27:31 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:27:31 -0800 (PST)

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:27:31 -0800 (PST)
To: toto@sk.sympatico.ca
Subject: Re: IBM Key Recovery Propaganda on United Airlines
In-Reply-To: <32D4142E.CB8@sk.sympatico.ca>
Message-ID: <199701090120.TAA27868@manifold.algebra.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Toto wrote:
> 
> Bill Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > The commercials between the movie and news show on the airline include an
> > IBM spot on their new Key Recovery software.  Sigh.
> > 
> > The explanations they gave were mixed; one person was talking about
> > making sure that if you lose the key that people with a legitimate need
> > to access the material can do it. 
> 
>   Like the legitimate leader of a country, say, for instance...Hitler?
> Or a legitimate law enforcement agency, say, for instance...the Gestapo?
> 

... Or a legitimate business need to recover the key of an employee
who suddenly quit the company?

There can be many good uses of key recovery.

	- Igor.

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