[Nea] Re: Requirements specifications

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> > I'm not joking.  there are people who would use this mechanism to do all 
> > kinds of invasive searches.  there are people in the us congress who 
> > would see nothing wrong with having networks search computers for 
> > "illegal" or "subversive" content if the mechanisms to do so were 
> > already in place.  it's simply not acceptable to standardize a mechanism 
> > that can be used to do invasive searches of a computer.
>
>   To re-phrase that, NEA can permit such searches only with the
> consent of the end host. 

that's not equivalent to what I was saying, and I'd have reservations 
about stretching things that far.

I'm very concerned about user privacy, and I don't accept as an axiom 
that the host can consent to searches that impact the user.

Keith

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