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FWEE!: kiosks
>The whistleblower creates his file in the privacy
>of his own home on a floppy disk, encrypts it in the public key of
>the whistleblowing system, and carries it to a public kiosk where he
>sends it.
This is the ideal scenario. I suspect that kiosks for other purposes
will eventually contain some form of user-available I/O. I'm guessing
it will be infrared, maybe rs232 serial. Diskette drives are too
vulnerable and expensive to be feasible in a pay phone environment;
they're called armor phones, and for good reason. In particular,
sfnet doesn't have diskette access.
No bother, we're not going to create the best system on the first
revision. A good enough system will drive later systems.
Eric