RIP amendments MK2

[Charles Lindsey]

=09On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:10:14 +0000
=09Donald Ramsbottom <donald@ramsbottom.co.uk> said...

> Clause 52  page 52  line 35 leave out definition of key and replace with:
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> ""Key" in relation to protected information, means the specific key(s),
> code,  password, algorithm or other data the use of which (with or withou=
t
> other keys)-
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> a) Allows access to the protected Information, or
> b) Facilitates the putting of the protected information into an intelligi=
ble
> form"

Your faith on the efficacy of the magic word "specific", is most
touching, but it is actually quite meaningless in the context in which you
have used it. Yes, there is a problem to be solved, but your wording
gets nowhere hear it.
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> Clause 52 page 53 line 1 leave out definition of protected information an=
d
> insert
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> ""Protected information" means the specific electronic data required, whi=
ch
> without the specific electronic key to that data (such required data to b=
e
> set out in detail in the S:46 notice) -
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> a) Cannot be accessed or
> b) Cannot be put into an intelligible form"

And the same again here.


However, I have been thinking further about "intelligible form". Here is th=
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@^@^@^@^--More--

Is that intelligible? To understand it, you need to feed it (the whole
of it, of course) into a certain program, or "algorithm". But look at
the definition of "key". Isn't the program (algorithm) that understands
that data a "key" within the meaning of the bill?

So what is the program (key) that understands that particular data?
Well, actually, it is Microsoft Word. And although many people (my self
included) would regard anything to do with Microsoft Word as totally
unintelligible, I don't think that is quite what the drafters of the
bill intended. Or is it?

And, in any case, what would be the _proper_ way to define
intelligibility, other than "you would know it when you saw it"?
Somebody posted a definition a while back. Perhaps that could be
reposted, and we should work on it.

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