Re: Bad ideas from Microsoft et al

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 22:27:26 MDT

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    --- 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
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