[16968] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Digital Water Marks Thieves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Thu Mar 3 14:32:12 2005
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:34:08 -0600
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: <421B648E.9010007@doxpara.com>
To: crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Cc: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
On Feb 22, 2005, at 10:57, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> The point is that the thief should think anything expensive is
> protected, by which I mean it's too traceable to fence.
That would be the thinking of a thief who read the article and took it
at face value. A more clever thief would realize that the magic water
would respond to *his* ultraviolet light just as well as the police's.
(And in today's climate, the counter-counteraction will be a measure to
outlaw ultraviolet lights in the hands of private citizens ...)
"Let's vary piracy / with a little burglary!"
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
