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From: mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:58:29 -0600

From: dailynews-text-admin () mindsec com

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Marshals in Cyberspace: Fighting Internet Child Molesters @
http://www.foxnews.com/national/092899/child_park.sml

It wasn't the ordinary kind oflong-distance acquaintance that people think
of when youmention the Internet. Don Daufenbach had been communicating
with Vancouver-area resident Michael Gibbon for several months about a
shared interest, just as hundreds of thousands do every day in the
burgeoning realm of cyberspace. But in this case, the shared interest was
child pornography.

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InteRosa takes a stab at secure e-mail @
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/990928/04/interosa-takes-a

Most business probably don't think of e-mail as an asset, but one startup
thinks they should, and aims to help them manage it that way.  QVTech Inc.
confirmed for ZDNN that next Monday it will announce InteRosa, a
technology that lets the user control various aspects of the e-mail they
send --- including whether an e-mail can be forwarded, or even have its
text cut-and-pasted.

/*
Interesting, however, stopping an E-mail from being forwarded, or
cut and pasted, means nothing if the e-mail isn't encrypted. It
still Isn't secure.
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