At 09:50 AM 3/20/00 -0800, Ed Gerck wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I don't acknowledge that reverse engineering violates any right to privacy.
>
>Send someone a plaintext message in a postcard. If I read it, I can
>claim that I could not help but read it when I saw it -- so, I had
>no intent to break your privacy and you cannot prove otherwise.
>
>However, if the message is encoded or encrypted and I manage to read the
>plaintext then I can no longer claim I had no choice and no intent. Actually,
>I must have spent time and work in order to break your privacy -- so, I must
>have done it with intent.
So, if the neighbors on either side of me are Navaho and use their language
whenever they talk to one another across my property am I invading their
privacy if I take a Navaho night school course and don't ell my
neighbors? What about if I purchase the Navaho module for my Dragon
Dictate, voice input software, and have it translate the conversations I
capture from by back porch?
--Steve
