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From: Timothy C. May If we go down the path of worrying about "psychic pain" inflicted on others, then how can we operate in a world of failed marriages and relationships, of hurt feelings, and of other such psychic damages? ....................................... What about the psychic trauma caused by Clipper? You could probably make a case for that, in terms of psychological warfare, given the current attitudes. Blanc
<In mail Blanc Weber said:> > > From: Timothy C. May > > If we go down the path of worrying about "psychic pain" inflicted on > others, then how can we operate in a world of failed marriages and > relationships, of hurt feelings, and of other such psychic damages? > ....................................... > > What about the psychic trauma caused by Clipper? Has the government been covertly working on artificial intelligence and such? I wasn't aware that we were anywhere NEAR the ability to incorporate psychic abilities in computer chips! Will Clipper read our minds as well as our data? Will it plant "You are not a crook" thoughts in our heads? What does the government plan to do with such a chip? Will they prevent crimes before they happen? Will the psychic impressions gathered by the Clipper be admissible in court? [Insert smileys to taste, simmer for 15 minutes, then throw the whole kettle soup out since it's only a joke. Obviously they meant psychological trauma etc.] ObCrypt: Has anyone heard of work in the area of encrypting all information on a computer and build the authentication software into the operating system so the only practical chance of intrusion is a forgetful operator? -- Tantalus Inc. Jim Sewell Amateur Radio: KD4CKQ P.O. Box 2310 Programmer Internet: jims@mpgn.com Key West, FL 33045 C-Unix-PC Compu$erve: 71061,1027 (305)293-8100 PGP via email on request. 1K-bit Fingerprint: 8E 14 68 90 37 87 EF B3 C4 CF CD 9A 3E F9 4A 73
On Wed, 27 Apr 1994, Jim Sewell wrote: > ObCrypt: Has anyone heard of work in the area of encrypting all information > on a computer and build the authentication software into the > operating system so the only practical chance of intrusion is a > forgetful operator? Yes, in fact, that's been talked about. There's a DES-based loop driver for disks floating around, and I've kicked around the idea of hacking exec() and the back-end to gcc so that ld would use PGP to digitally sign a binary based on a serial number in the kernel, and having exec() use PGP to verify that the binary hadn't been tampered with. I suppose the same idea could also be used to encrypt binaries, so that the binary couldn't be tampered with and would only run on that machine. Not a real problem to implement, really.