From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 23:09:26 MDT
--- Steve Davies <steve365@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Just found out about the link below. This certainly hasn't been
> getting publicity over here.
>
> http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html
>
> How serious is this?
It is serious, but the authors against tcpa don't seem to have the
imagination to think up beneficial uses of it. For example, if a
government document management system is entirely tcpa compliant, it
will be VERY easy to do government-wide FOIA requests, such that, even
if you may not get every document due to classifications, you will know
how many such documents exist.
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.
While my example is somewhat mirthful, there are plenty of rather
serious and useful applications of the principle.
=====
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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