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Comment Re:EXPLICITLY ask them NOT to send the private key (Score 1) 399

They way you put it the relation will be quickly over. From the way the question was put, both parties have something to gain if these documents are sent over, but the OP the most. He doesn't want to push his wish for security up to the point where the deal is blown off. Pick your battles carefully, that kind of stuff.

As others have pointed out, once the documents are decrypted, there's no telling what happens to them. There's nobody stopping them from sending a copy directly to the NSA for convenience. But in this case, he trusts the organization to do the right thing. Then a once-off practical security measure is simplest: encrypt the document with a password, tell the password in a separate conversation. Once he gets to the point where he has to send another document every day, something like pgp might be in order. But by that time he is talking to other people besides the secretary and it will be a lot easier.

Comment Re:"Liberty-Minded"? (Score 1) 701

Of course nut jobs, communists, professional agitators want to be free as well.

Freedom would imply the liberty to ignore these people. We're it becomes dangerous is when people say that it would also imply the liberty to beat them up, or even kill them. A moral compass would prevent this, but not everybody can be trusted to have a moral compass. There comes the choice: should there be a distinction between people with and without a moral compass - is there a need for a government that locks "bad" people up? I think so, but as soon as you give the rights to do so to a government, it will expand its authority. This means putting more people in jail for questionable actions. It will invent laws that first slightly bend, then outright contradict what was its goal. It will start spying on the people it says it wants to protect.

As long as people disagree with each other, they will team up with other people that agree with them. That is called a government and the purpose of that government is to oppress the ones that don't agree with it. After a while, nobody is being served by that government anymore.

Mark.

Comment Re:That is quite some deflection on display (Score 1) 54

There's always two sides to a story. To be honest, everything mr. Myhrvold says sounds very reasonable. Of course everybody is entitled to his own opinion, but I think he's more qualified to speak on the right and wrong of patents than most. I learned something here... and that's worth a big thank you.

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