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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:38
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:06:12 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, K. M. Ellis wrote:
> ODS's side of the story: http://www.ods.com/news/121698.shtml
>
> "A breakthrough technique, called Stream Recovery, resolves the
> conflicting requirements between a customer's need for complete privacy
> and their occasional need to diagnose communication problems, or to allow
> law enforcement to build prosecution files against criminal employees.
[...]
> This stops any attempt by law enforcement or internal network managers
> who try to access data outside their "need to know" boundaries."
I think this is a reasonable thing to want to make possible, although the
general approach of ods is I think a wrong one. There are plenty of
institutions, for example banks, who might be required to hand over
records to law enforcement, and would like to have a system which proved
that they hadn't changed any of their records prior to handing them over,
and which enabled them to only hand over the records required and nothing
else. I think, however, that an approach similar to timestamping
techniques woud be far better for this application.
In any case, if nobody generates a good package for performing the above,
mediocre ones will inevitable be created and deployed.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:38