Does delay, stealth mode, and visit from the MIB indicate that Starium
has been CAVE-crippled in order to get a life-saving contract
from the USG, like the coerced compliance of TMI in Canada Perry
posted on?
The future of the Web set out by Robert Cailliau, who cites France's
beloved Mintel as a model, reminds that such nationally condoned and
subsidized systems (as with PTT) are now being seen as
wide area surveillance systems camouflaged by sophisticated PR
campaigns to induce widespread familiarity, convenience
shopping, chatting, networking -- fercrissakes, smell likes the
benign segue from Darpa to education to commerce of the Internet.
Van Eck made his Tempest rep working for PTT to develop
a means to EM emanations from its teleboxes whose
EMI were being complained about by neighbors in adjoining
apartments. Van Eck discovered the leaking in the devices,
raised the point in public for a while, then apparently was
informed that the technical deficiency was no accident and
went oddly quiet. This is described in Harold Highland's
1988 article in Abacus.
There's an intriguing parallel between the rise of cryptography
and the recession of information on electromagnetic snooping
by non-intrusive means. Not unlike the panel who sponsored
the 1996 CRISIS report recommended: boost strong crypto
while increasing funding for other, never unidentified, technologies
for getting around it.
The FBI's stolid demand for weak crypto stinks of deception,
a cloak for worse.
