From:	Fixer <fixer@*******.TLH.FL.US>
Subject:	Re: [Stuff] Pocket Secretaries (first draft)
Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:29:25 -0400

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Gurth wrote:

->According to Wordman, at 9:09 on 29 Sep 98, the word on the street was...
->
->> Hmm. I hadn't considered that. Do you really think they would be open to
->> viewing from the Matrix (when they were connected to it, of course). Seems
->> like most users would not want this. I know I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to
->> risk my personal data being snooped from the Matrix.
->
->I think these things would be guarded in some way, like only "opening" to
->receive data (at which time a decker could get in, theoretically) when
->they _need_ to.

How about the one-directional datalines as put forth in NAGRL?
One for incoming and one for outgoing data? In addition, for security
reasons (if I designed the system), the matrix LTG for a pocket secretary
would be 'unstable' in that each time a pocket secretary or cellphone was
activated, it was given a new LTG number (think modern day pagers where
you have one number you dial in on and then type in a PIN to get a
specific pager. Doing that in reverse.). Unless you stayed connected for
a long period of time, you'd be safe using it and not being hacked by
deckers. In addition, if a decker followed the data 'upstream' to find
the phone, it'd be on a one-directional OUTGOING dataline the decker
couldn't transverse (following the data downstream would take them into
the secretary, but be unable to get data out, unless they found the
outgoing dataline too...).

Fixer --------------} The easy I do before breakfast,
the difficult I do all day long,
the impossible only during the week,
and miracles performed on an as-needed basis....

Now tell me, what was your problem?