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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208181623.AA20670@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 06:23:21 GMT
- Approved: usenet@eff.org
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- From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.084328.21533@nntp.nta.no>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 08:43:28 GMT
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- In article <viking.714081499@vincent1.iastate.edu>, Dan Sorenson writes:
- >
- > Credit card fraud is also rather simple. So is passing a bad
- > check. One can modify your license plates and go speeding through the
- > photo-radar speed traps with impunity. One can also forge a signature
- > fairly easily. So what? The issue is that forgery can be detected,
- > though finding out exactly who forged it is nearly impossible,
-
- No, in many of these cases the culprit runs a chance of being caught red
- handed. (Not that I'd deny that there *are* things that can be done for
- example to harass a credit card holder with almost no chance of getting
- caught.)
-
- > and hence
- > a forged post can be justifiably killed and the person who's name appears
- > on it can be aquitted of wrongdoing. I'm not after the forger so much
- > as I'm after protecting the person who's name appears in the header.
-
- Well, I hate to pick nits, but cancelling a post may not always remove all
- copies of that message. And, archived copies are not deleted. And even if
- an explanatory message is posted it may not reach all people concerned.
- (The posters name may already be in a KILL-file, or the message is just
- lost in the enormous flow of data.)
-
- One solution to the problem would of course be to use digital signatures.
- However, some countries have strict laws limiting the use of cryptography
- at least for use in an international community like the news network.
-
- ---
- Haakon Styri *** std. disclaimer applies ***
- Norwegian Telecom Research *** I speak for myself and only myself ***
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