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Subject:	Re: You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:34:19 GMT
Original-From:	Jeff Jackowski <JEFFJ@RO.saynotospamCOM>
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, John A. deVries II wrote: > At 03:42 PM 8/31/99 , STARRWARSS@aol.com wrote: > > << Either the Furby in the USA is > > different from mine or the FBI/NSA must be very silly to consider Furby > > as a threat... >> > > > > I do believe they set the standard a while back for recording devices of any > > kind. > > Actually, folks, the reason is deeper than that. Audio recording devices > have been forbidden here at Los Alamos since forever (no doubt at those > other places as well), but with the recent HUGE emphasis on security > they've been looking at devices that communicate via IR. This includes not > only palmtop computers (hey -- it might intercept a classified transmission > going to an IR-enabled printer in the room you are sitting in) but such > devices as IR-communicating watches! Sounds like they should just mandate that all sensitive information never be transmitted via IR, and leave IR for data doesn't need to be secure. Or maybe just ban data. That should fix the problem! Jeff Jackowski http://ro.com/~jeffj/ -- Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics

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		Re: You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
Let's hope the FBI personnel have better things to do with their time while at work than to play with Furbys and RCX bricks. -Phil (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
(...) i wonder if these highly paid paranoids ever heard of ... encryption? like, just encrypt stuff whenever it leaves a computer? duh. nik ___...___ nikolaus heger nik@stagecast.com PGP fingerprint: 650.354.0735 970A 0D39 41BD A660 AACB 674B 747A (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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		You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
(...) Actually, folks, the reason is deeper than that. Audio recording devices have been forbidden here at Los Alamos since forever (no doubt at those other places as well), but with the recent HUGE emphasis on security they've been looking at (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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