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  1. Xref: sparky comp.org.eff.talk:8337 alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk:3863 comp.security.misc:2451 alt.privacy:2851 alt.society.civil-liberty:7273
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!barmar
  3. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.security.misc,alt.privacy,alt.society.civil-liberty
  5. Subject: Re: Boycotting CERT because of the keystroke monitoring advisory?
  6. Date: 5 Jan 1993 23:17:48 GMT
  7. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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  9. Distribution: inet
  10. Message-ID: <1id4usINNap1@early-bird.think.com>
  11. References: <1993Jan4.212439.4278@nntp.hut.fi> <1ib0grINNhq3@early-bird.think.com> <1993Jan5.114722.5863@nntp.hut.fi>
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  13.  
  14. In article <1993Jan5.114722.5863@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
  15. >In article <1ib0grINNhq3@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think (Barry Margolin) writes:
  16. >>My interpretation was that CERT was recommending that *if* you have a
  17. >>policy where you might monitor input, that you should put this warning in a
  18. >>login banner.
  19. >
  20. >I didn't see anything to this effect in the advisory - it was an
  21. >unconditional recommendation the way I read it.
  22.  
  23. That's a silly interpretation.  The only purpose of the warning is to get
  24. the people monitoring off the hook if the monitoree complains about
  25. invasion of his privacy.  Why would anyone who has no plans to monitor
  26. keystrokes need to warn that they do?
  27. -- 
  28. Barry Margolin
  29. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  30.  
  31. barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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