> Perhaps more on target, possession of those passwords does *not*, as > far as I can tell, change the FBI's legal ability to, for example, read > someone's email. They'd still need a court order...
Steve, the FBI doesn't care about what the law says. Their big concern is what they can get away with. If having two million peoples' passwords, stolen by a worm, lets them get away with more stuff, then they'll go for it, laws or no laws. Who's going to prosecute them if they violate the law before getting around to changing it? John Asscroft? He's sworn to uphold the Constitution, and of course none of his proposals would ever violate anyone's civil rights. But since his view seems to be that we never had any rights anyway, he can't very well diminish them, though he is desparately looking for the boundaries just in case there are any left. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]