From: Kent Crispin <kent@bywater.songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <19971013011450.42022@bywater.songbird.com>
Reply To: <b6eadab9ed323417eed33e59a019c8c9@anon.efga.org>
UTC Datetime: 1997-10-13 08:22:01 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:22:01 +0800
From: Kent Crispin <kent@bywater.songbird.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:22:01 +0800
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: What's really in PGP 5.5?
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Message-ID: <19971013011450.42022@bywater.songbird.com>
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On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 11:36:54PM -0400, Ray Arachelian wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Anonymous wrote:
>
> > Second, what if an employee doesn't come back from vacation? You've got
> > messages sitting in his inbox which go back three weeks. All encrypted
> > to his personal key, which is gone.
>
> Shut up Kent, yes, we know it is you posting this rant.
Actually, no, it wasn't.
> The above fails
> due to one single little key word "his personal key." If it is his
> personal key, then the business has no business reading his email.
Perhaps he has no business having a personal key on a company machine.
He's a fool if he does, anyway -- if the company wanted to snoop his
key they just go in after hours, install a keyboard sniffer, and grab
his passphrase...the bottom line is, Ray, that if it is on a corporate
machine, the corporation has access, whether the employee thinks so or
not.
[...]
> This is a stupid arguement. Go away.
Unwitting self reference is so delicious :-).
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html
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