On 5/14/2015 4:23 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Do you know that *you* and "dkg" are in my "public" keyring? There is >> a reason they call it a "public" keyring. It contains "public" keys >> that are available to everyone. > > The certificates themselves are; the specific collection of certificates > may, in fact, be quite sensitive. > > A great example of this comes from an American magazine called _The > Progressive_. In 1979 they had a journalist named Howard Morland who > wanted to write the definitive work on how nuclear bombs worked. He > went through a huge amount of publicly available material and came up > with an article that was apparently so accurate the United States > government sued to prevent its publication, lest nuclear weapon secrets > fall into the hands of foreign nation-states. > > (Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and _The Progressive_ was allowed to > publish Morland's article.) > > Anyway -- yes, just because a piece of data is public doesn't mean a > specific compilation of public data is public. Sometimes it's very > sensitive indeed! > > In *my specific case*, there's nothing secret about my public keyring. > However, other people may have vastly different needs. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_Inc.
You mean like this? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia> You have a good. And be sure to check under your bed at night. -- David
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