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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Palmer)
Thu Apr 13 14:45:28 2006

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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:39:56 -0700
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lorenzo writes:

> 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.

Consider the massive effort Daniel Ellsberg undertook when leaking the
Pentagon Papers.  He had to photcopy tons of stuff.  If you had a DRM'd
document that you couldn't print or email out, you could use your camera
to take a picture of the document on your computer's display.  (For
example.)


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