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- From: newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham)
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystr
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.090705.22164@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- References: <1992Dec11.235142.3072@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec12.043113.24232@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 09:07:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.043113.24232@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> palmer@Trade_Zone.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
- >
- >
- >We must be careful not to confuse rights with privilege.
- >
- >If while visiting a friend, I used his phone and he listened in on the
- >conversation, I would not feel that my rights had been violated. I
- >would think him very rude and would not use his phone again. Now if he
- >were visiting me and listened in on my phone conversation, the
- >situation would be different.
- >
- >I have a hard time understanding how guests can make demands of their
- >hosts.
- >
- >It seems to be the human condition that after having been granted a
- >privilege for a long time, we take it for granted and begin to assume
- >that it is our right. ie. the "legal right" to:
- > - drive a car
- > - come and go as we please
- > - drink alcohol
-
- ack! if you think these are not rights I dont really know what
- to say..
- (1) drive a car - if it doenst infringe on the rights of others
- then it is entirely your own business...
-
- (2) come and go as we please - as long as we dont intrude on
- other peoples "property".
-
- (3) drink alchohol, take drugs etc - again as long as it doesnt
- intrude on other peoples rights.
-
- these are all rights, the government has no place messing
- with things like these, maybe they make rules to make things
- easier for themselves and make sure other rights arent
- bein trampled on by you.
-
- government should not be in the business of protecting
- people from theirselves...
- ack.. this is getting way off topic, what is this
- stuff even doing in comp.misc.sec ?
-
- >
- >That came out a little more like preaching than I had hoped...so in the
- >interests of network bandwidth, if you strongly disagree with me, either
- >ignore me or flame me via E-mail
- >
- >---
- >Paul (Cliffy) Palmer
- >E-Mail: palmer@trade_zone.msfc.nasa.gov
- >
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