On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:32:13AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> The amount of stupid hateful wetware around the whole subject of
> encryption is, of course, amazing.
And lots of it spends much of its workday wrapped in black robes. I
could easily imagine a course of events thus:
- Moron posts pdf, "encrypted" because it includes a compromising
photo of Moron's Aunt Tillie;
- Google finds it, laughs, "decrypts" it and caches it;
- Moron discovers this, sues Google for invasion of privacy or (even
better!) "circumvention" under the DMCA;
- Courts side with Moron and against P. T. Barnum, transfer of funds
ensues.
