Violation of Security/Privacy...

Tue Oct 11 21:05:55 PDT 2005

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Alan Horn wrote:
> You could argue that if all that gets passed is hashes, then its harmless. 
> However, what if thoses hashes are of files that are considered subversive, 
> or key phrases that are related to terrorist activities, or any number of 
> 'lawful intercept' reasons.

Actually I don't see why they'd pass anything other than a binary
pass/fail.  Either there's a match, against -something-, or there isn't.

In a game context, any match would mean you were cheating.

cheers!
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