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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.security.misc,alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.212518.9612@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 21:25:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.041023.4125@eff.org> <1992Dec10.025308.14768@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec11.122009.8181@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec11.193941.6961@netcom.com>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Lines: 19
- In-Reply-To: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
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- In article <1992Dec11.193941.6961@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom (David Sternlight) writes:
- >As to the substance, he raises a hard issue to which I don't know the
- >answer, though I have some views in the matter. That is the issue of
- >inadvertently learning something about an "innocent" when legitimately
- >pursuing a suspect, and as a consequence discovering that the
- >'innocent" isn't. In the present instance it's about monitoring the
- >keystrokes of, say, a system intruder, and discovering the keystrokes
- >of someone he's talking to as an inevitable by-product.
-
- Actually, that wasn't the issue I was talking about. What you talk
- about is an interesting question in itself, and I don't have an answer
- to that.
-
- But what I was talking about seems much simpler to me. It seems the
- announcement is trying to get consent for all kinds of monitoring from
- all users, and that "fix" for the problem of monitoring of intruders
- is in my opinion worse that the problem.
-
- //Jyrki
-