From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 22:27:26 MDT
--- Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >...
> >To demonstrate: lets say I submit a FOIA request for all documents
> on
> >UFOs in government archives. I can determine, for example, that
> while
> >the USAF might have several hundred thousand documents on them,
> which
> >you'd expect for a department that had defending our skies as its
> job,
> >if, say, the Department of the Interior had a billion documents on
> the
> >same topic, I'd see that as rather odd and deserving of greater
> >investigation.
> >
> >A tcpa compliant system would not be able to conveniently 'lose'
> >documents, as has happened so much in the past. They might not give
> you
> >access to them, or access to unredacted versions, but you should be
> >able to know that they exist.
> >...
> >
> >
> I suspect very strongly that you are wrong. If I have read the specs
> correctly, it could easily "loose" documents.
If I am wrong, then such a system would be illegal for any US state or
federal government agency to use, under the FOI Act. I doubt very much
that Microsoft is *that* stupid.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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