NY Times reports: Documents show link between AT&T and NSA

[mis at seiden.com]

in this case, poorly chosen example.

it's hard to not print documents used by the technician(s) to install
splitters in the fibers and specify the details of wiring in and between
various racks and cabinets.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:04:07PM +0200, lorenzo wrote:
> On 4/13/06, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/us/nationalspecial3/13nsa.html
> [...]
> > Now Mr. Klein and a few company documents he saved have emerged as key
> > elements in a class-action lawsuit filed against AT&T on Jan. 31 by a
> > civil liberties group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The suit
> > accuses the company of helping the security agency invade its customers'
> > privacy.
> 
> Am I wrong or if we were living in a DRM- or Trusted Computing- World,
> those documents probably would be unreadable, if they were digital
> documents? Also they could have prevented printing of the documents,
> and so on.
> 
> Of course, the human is still the weaker ring, but this is not of much
> help in such cases.
> 
> --
> :lorenzo grespan
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