trivia

[Adrian Midgley]

From: Owen Lewis <oml@eloka.demon.co.uk>

>Really? You might be surprised ar what still lurks in the depths of
the PC
>on which you created it?

I might be, however I downloaded and compiled Apache shortly after
deleting it, and routinely defragmenting the drive.  So SQUIDs apart,
I think it is unlikely to be hanging around by accident.
Rather more to the point though, it is well known that PGP can encrypt
messages to the recipient only, and although we are saying in public
that you have never had the key which was labelled with your identiy,
and that if it could be found on one of the machines on one of my
networks this is not becuase you sent it to me by an unapparent
channel...

I don't have to prove that, and under RIPA by the meaning I believe is
generally agreed on this list _you_ might have to try.

>Besides, you now need to conspire to pervert the course of justice if
you
>are going to get a notice served on the recipient.

How so?  Seems to me that it would only be necessary for me to commit
a crime for you to appear in the list of people with whom I have
corresponded, encryptedly, and that is not normally described as
perverting the course of justice.  Alternatively, if somebody else
perverts or otherwise influences justice, they might trigger that
notice.  Irritated anyone recently?

A local doctor was recently arrested in relation to material in
storage on his computer, now I know of no reason why anyone should
connect me to him, since we have few interests in common, however if
they did for reasons only known to themselves, they might then choose
to follow that trail onward, might they not.
And not from my intention.

>If it were me, I'd fold now rather than up the ante but advising
people how
>they should act is usually a sterile activity.

Oh indeed so, but it pays fairly well.

>We wait with bated breath. Or should that be with baited breath?
I don't advise you to hold your breath.