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30.9.04

Windows Without Curtains. Computer Privacy and Academic Freedom: A professor discovers the intricacies of electronic property rights when her computer becomes part of a police investigation. What rights do faculty have to work stored on a university's hard drive? By Martha McCaughey

The worst thing you can do to a computer is make it a "personal computer"... especially when it is owned by your employer. The sheer naivety of the author is amazing. Someone please make this person take a law class. We do need an Electronic Bill of Rights... but we aren't going to get one unless we demand it.

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