Re: Software license detector vans

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Stephen Zander (gibreel@pobox.com)
19 Mar 1998 16:31:31 -0800

>>>>> "Per" == Per Kangru <goedel@a190.ryd.student.liu.se> writes:

Per> On 18 Mar 1998, Andreas Bogk wrote:

>> >>>>> "William" == William H Geiger <whgiii@invweb.net> writes:
>>
William> I see this as quite scary. Imagine a program that
William> radiated out private info, CC #'s, private PGP keys with
William> passphrases, bank account access codes. the possibilities
William> are endless and the worse part covert.
>> Some people claim this already happened. The software in
>> questionis PROMIS, a database query utility.

Per> Please support this claim. I would be very intersting in
Per> testing this kind of software. It would not be to impossible
Per> to check wether it radiates more than it should.

I think Andreas' point was that data collection techniques for most
personal information already exist. They don't necessarily need you
personal computing systems to be coerced into giving them up.

PROMIS has not, however, lived up to its name. 

-- 
Stephen

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