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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)
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:12:23 GMT
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nik heger <nik@stagecast{AvoidSpam}.com>
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At 17*34 -0500 31.08.99, Jeff Jackowski wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, John A. deVries II wrote:
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> > 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!
i wonder if these highly paid paranoids ever heard of ... encryption?
like, just encrypt stuff whenever it leaves a computer? duh.
nik
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