Re: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)

2004-04-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: > What the law actually states is (basically) a defaulted loan must be > forgiven after seven years. In other words, it is illegal to continue to > attempt to collect on a loan, 7 years after the default. There are different levels of illegal. The most important one is the

RE: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)

2004-04-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:16 PM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >(As an aside, although debt has to be -forgiven- after 7 years, contrary to >popular belief it is not true that a debt has to be -forgotten-...I know of >one credit major card company that will not accept 'new' cardmembers that >didn't pay back what th

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-09 Thread Tyler Durden
, but the google search feature. OK, point conceded (once I tore off the wrapper). -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:48:02 -0700 At 09:58 AM

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:58 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: >Well, I never claimed to be Einstein, but your "3 simple steps" sound a hell >of a lot like my recipe for making a ham sandwich: Hardly. One could put together a very slick "drop file here for encrypted net storage" script in a day. One could even p

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
> And I'd like to see their >adwords facility struggling to come up with something appropriate when >the only legible text is "BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE". Wow are you non-commercial :-) All the spy stores, sec phone makers, disk encryptors, VPN vendors, etc will be paying top dollar to get see

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-09 Thread Tyler Durden
teak, you want pork. Tell them, "Uh, change that pork to ham, and put it between the two slices of bread". Oi La! Instant Ham sandwich! -TD From: An Metet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gmail as Blacknet Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:08:39 -0400 Tyler Durden

Re: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:26 AM 4/8/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: >The privacy news has been full of fuss and bluster lately about >Google's proposed Gmail service. >Cypherpunks have two somewhat contradictory positions on the issue. >First, as lovers of privacy, they will share the concerns in the letter >and they woul

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > Poo poo. The difference between a potential blacknet and Gmail is that > there's little doubt that google will cough up the true names of > objectionable posters, if and when anyone looking even remotely > authoritative/governmental comes pounding on thei

RE: Gmail as Blacknet

2004-04-08 Thread Tyler Durden
"Ironically, some of the features of Gmail bear resemblance to BlackNet. In particular, its claimed policy of retaining email indefinitely, even after the recipient has stopped using the account, is reminiscent of BlackNet's function as a data haven, as well as other Cypherpunk projects like the Et