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echo: virus_info
to: STEVE BENNETT
from: KURT WISMER
date: 1997-04-27 21:28:00
subject: Re: Naughty Robots

 -=> Mocking Steve Bennett to Kurt Wismer <=-
   
 SB> Ok...I admit it isn't as clear cut as I thought it was.  Obviously a
 SB> gun should be locked away...but...aargh...it gets too
 SB> complicated...what happens after you finish using it? How soon back in
 SB> the box?
as soon as you can no longer practically keep a close eye on it (ie. you
have to do something else like go to the bathroom or pick up little joey
from soccer practise... a gun shouldn't leave your sight unless it's
through the closing of the safe's door...
 SB> How secure the lock?
a safe is a safe... it's a tempered steel box with a combination lock...
 KW> the recipient's public key... my virus collection is password
 KW> protected, and i would expect that anyone with enough understanding of
 SB> You leave your virus collection encrypted when it's on your _own_
 SB> computer?
no, i don't leave it on my computer... i put it on a zip disk (ever hear
of a product called iomega zip drives?)...
 SB> That no-one else can get to?  You leave them encrypted and
 SB> you decrypt them everyitme you play with them?  I couldn't handle
 SB> something lke that... 
why, because it's inconvenient?... real security tends to be that way...
... today's mock has been brought to you by the letters p, u, and # pi...
--- Maximus 2.02
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