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Jim Maule's essay on what happens to your email when you die [priv]
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:12:36 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:16:14 -0500 To: <politech () politechbot com> Subject: [Politech] Jim Maule's essay on what happens to your email when you die [priv] [Another solution might be to digitize and encrypt your sensitive documents and correspondence (think Mac OS X File Vault) in a way that would _by default_ render them inaccessible when you die and take your knowledge of the passphrase with you. Of course that strategy is a bet that our understanding of mathematics doesn't radically change in the near future, but it's still a privacy-protective approach that may help to solve the puzzle Jim poses. --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] More on what happens to your Web-based email after youdie [priv] Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:17:06 -0500 From: James Maule <Maule () law villanova edu> To: <declan () well com> Declan, Inspired by the original post and wanting to elaborate on my comments, I did a more extensive analysis on my MauledAgain blog at http://mauledagain.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_mauledagain_archive.html#11048677 5970538028 so those interested can take a look. It's an interesting intersection of pre-digital law with digital law, both obscured by clouds of doubt and uncertainty. Jim Maule _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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