Re: Computer crime prompts new parole restrictions

[Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>]

At 03:58 PM 12/17/96 -0800, Lile Elam wrote:
[...]
>It also seems to me that preventing people on probation from 
>using encryption would be difficult especially when encryption is used
>in webservers (ie Netscapes Secure Server). One could accidentally 
>access one and not know that he was sending/receiving information
>via an encrypted channel.
[...]

Note that the new rules require logging of computer usage. I would assume
that means keystroke logging with nightly uploads to the Feds.

What motto does the US Parole Commission have on their seal? May I suggest
"Arbeit macht frei"? Who are these people anyway? I never heard of this
commission...





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