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IP: Gates on Technology and Privacy
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 06:51:57 -0400
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:07:07 +0100 To: farber () central cis upenn edu From: Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk (Brian Randell) Subject: Gates on Technology and Privacy Dave: The Bill Gates' article "Privacy: Who should know what about whom?" in yesterday's Guardian newspaper here (which I gather is syndicated by the New York Times so presumably has already appeared there and goodness knows where else), contains the statement: "Technology can overcome this privacy problem: expect to see e-mail that, at the option of the sender, cannot be forwarded or printed on paper." I'm no security expert, but I was surprised by this claim. Can someone enlighten please as to its likely validity. Cheers Brian Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/
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