[Shucks, I guess that newfangled telegraph let criminals communicate better too... --DBM] >From: "David Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:21:36 +0000 >Subject: [FC]: BBC News story "Internet will boost crime" >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Priority: normal >X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_288000/288863.stm >makes for interesting and sinister - if rather comical - reading. > > >-- >David Cantrell, Senior Developer, Wirestation >http://www.wirestation.co.uk and something related >Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 13:19:43 -0700 >From: Charles Behney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03Gold (Win95; U) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Encryption key would lock up criminals > >Here's something from the UK NCIS people. Key escrow lives. > >CAB > >Sci/Tech > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_289000/289139.stm > > Encryption key would > lock up criminals > >By Internet Correspondent Chris Nuttall > > Cyber-criminals would be caught if the government > introduced a system where the keys to coded e-mail > were voluntarily lodged with licensed authorities, > according to the UK National Criminal Intelligence > Service (NCIS). > > NCIS was one of the groups appearing before the > House of Commons on Tuesday. > > "Criminals are lazy, greedy and they make > mistakes," John Abbott, NCIS Director General told > the Trade and Industry Select Committee, which is > hearing witnesses on electronic commerce issues. [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
