Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/4/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
However, I am far from convinced we would lose,
*sigh*. I give up.
From now on I'm going to make you deal with every case where someone thinks we could get away with doing some unnecessary and illegal act X.
The problem is that it's not at all clear that this act is illegal; it would only become clear if, say, _Wired_ were taken to court and lost. That's the crux of the dispute over whether we should include this information or not. As is the case with libel, there's a balance between wanting to avoid breaking the law on the one hand, and being so excessively cautious that we remove information that is both useful and legal to publish, on the other.
-Mark