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- From: olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson)
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
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- References: <1992Nov01.233637.138278@watson.ibm.com> <1992Nov2.084229.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov3.071335.2838@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <Bx7EtD.21B@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 07:35 EST
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- In article <Bx7EtD.21B@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes...
- >
- >There would have been little difference. Corporations are required to
- >keep certain books, have them audited, etc., and have the records
- >available. Nothing now physically prevents such a firm from having
- >its bookkeeper keep the "real" books in a highly secret place, in such
- >a way that it is not available to anybody without major contortions, and
- >having a public set of books entirely different. If, say, only the
- >bookkeeper and the CEO are even aware of it, and they can keep secrets,
- >how would the government even know about it?
- >
- >It is only the law, and the insistence of officers in a firm, which
- >even require that anything like honest books be kept. Make it too
- >hard to keep an accurate backup, and devices to at least have approximate
- >assessments of what really happened, and to give only a false image to the
- >public, will be produced. Other than brainwashing those with information,
- >or some other procedure which gets out what they do not want to tell, will
- >get this information, anyhow.
-
- I think both the example and your response are off the mark. I believe there
- is a greater concern over encrypting R&D information being communicated between
- a company's R&D researchers than dumping financial data out on the net. In
- fact, the only thing that would even closely resemble financial data would be
- negotiation data. Researchers communicate via computer nets. Marketeers via
- fax machine.
-
- >
- >--
- >Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
- >Phone: (317)494-6054
- >hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)
- >{purdue,pur-ee}!pop.stat!hrubin(UUCP)
-
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