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Re: CMR versus GAK?
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In <[email protected]>, on 10/23/97
at 06:05 AM, [email protected] (Neva Remailer) said:
>"Big Brother or the Boss?"
>Are you SURE that's a dichotomy?
>Big Biz and Big Gov are almost inextricably intertwined these days. If
>dot-com pushes for snoopware, it is called CMR. If dot-gov pushes for
>it, it is called GAK. The real question is, if the interests of Biz and
>Gov coincide, and "real cooperation" is achieved, does it really matter
>where the idea originated? Either way you still have snoopware.
Well their are some basics that seem to get overlooked:
Corporate Access to Plain Text (CAPT)
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- -- You work for the company
- -- Any documents you create on company time are owned by the company --
The company uses PGP 5.5 to ensure they can decrypt *their* documents --
You know which documents they have access to
- -- CAPT is flexable and can be adjusted to fit the security needs
of the company.
Government Access to Keys (GAK)
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- -- The governemnt works for you (at least in theory)
- -- Any document you create are your own.
- -- The govenrment want your keys so they can read *your* documents -- The
government wants access to ALL your documents
- -- There is no fleaxbility in GAK they want it all
There is a clear distinction here between one haveing the ability to
decrypt their own documents and a non-owner decrypting someone elses
documents. This is the distinction between corporate access to plain text
and GAK. The company *owns* the documents. They have a right to read them
any time they want. If you don't want your *private* corrospondance to be
read by others in the company then don't write them and transmit them at
work.
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