Um, even if Napster encrypted all communications between client and server and between the clients, it would not matter. All it would take would be for an RIAA enforcer to sign on as a user, look for his clients' stuff, download it (encrypted, of course, like all other users), and bust the source. To prevail against that, Napster would have to screen all its users and make sure none of them are RIAA agents!
Someone (Schneier?) recently observed that encryption is a mile-high pillar between you and the bad guys. They can't jump over it. So they just walk around it.
I have never received an email where the extra formatting made me think "wow, this is so much better than just plain text".
Yeah, right. Let's get rid of HTML. After all, couldn't we have a perfectly fine world wide web with only text files plus links? While we're at it, how 'bout we get rid of punctuation, too? I've never received a message where a comma made me think "wow, this is so much better than just plain language!".
we even have classified keyboards -- you cannot hook a keyboard up to an unclassified computer that has been contaminated by being connected to a classified one.
Here is an example of why they worry about keyboards:).
Wrong. Dumpster diving is perfectly legal. Trash is free for the taking. The only exception is if you have to commit some other violation, such as trespassing on a company's premises, in order to gain access to it.
Remember that incident last Spring in which Oracle got caught going through the trash of some organization that was supporting Microsoft? The private detective agency they hired first tried to buy trash from the cleaning company. When that didn't work, they ended up renting an office in the same building so that they could invade the (evidently indoor) dumpster without committing a a trespass!
(1) Paying the collection agency was a mistake. It amounts to an admission of guilt. You should have let them sue you.
(2) IANAL, but couldn't you sue Rutgers for slander? They are not a credit agency and thus are not protected by the credit reporting laws, right?
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Someone (Schneier?) recently observed that encryption is a mile-high pillar between you and the bad guys. They can't jump over it. So they just walk around it.
Yeah, right. Let's get rid of HTML. After all, couldn't we have a perfectly fine world wide web with only text files plus links? While we're at it, how 'bout we get rid of punctuation, too? I've never received a message where a comma made me think "wow, this is so much better than just plain language!".
Here is an example of why they worry about keyboards :).
Remember that incident last Spring in which Oracle got caught going through the trash of some organization that was supporting Microsoft? The private detective agency they hired first tried to buy trash from the cleaning company. When that didn't work, they ended up renting an office in the same building so that they could invade the (evidently indoor) dumpster without committing a a trespass!
(1) Paying the collection agency was a mistake. It amounts to an admission of guilt. You should have let them sue you. (2) IANAL, but couldn't you sue Rutgers for slander? They are not a credit agency and thus are not protected by the credit reporting laws, right?