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All this has been already going on for quite some time and
animal Clinton is just trying to legislate retroactively tyo
keep his pet fbi from looking any dumber than they already
do...they are desperately trying to convince people that
this is all new technology but it has been going on for 10
years heavy....its called prophylactic law enforcement and
its pure control and highly illegal and very well developed
here in the Federal Reserve USSA. Vote all republicrat
liars and thieves OUT of office election2000. Kick the Fed
the HELL OUT of the United States....Andrew Jackson was the
last American president.
Bill Gallagher
Zombie Cow wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/238/business/Beware_men_with_black_bags+.shtml
>
> Beware men with black bags
>
> By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Columnist, 08/26/99
>
> Soon, every well-dressed hoodlum may be carrying a laptop computer. It
> may be the only way to keep their criminal enterprises safe from the
> scrutiny of Uncle Sam.
>
> By now you've heard that the Clinton administration wants Congress to
> grant federal law enforcement agents the power to break into the homes
> and businesses of criminal suspects and plant digital bugs in their
> computers. These devices would bypass encryption programs that can be
> used to scramble data. As a result of such ''black-bag jobs,'' the
> Feds would be able to acquire all manner of useful evidence that is
> presently beyond their reach.
>
> Computer-industry officials, members of Congress, and Internet
> activists have denounced the idea. With good reason, they fret about
> privacy, free speech, unreasonable searches and seizures, and so on.
>
> My doubts were of a more technical nature. Can you really bug
> somebody's computer without the user noticing? I mean, a room can't
> tell you it's been bugged, but a computer will tell you quite a lot
> about what it's doing, if you run the right kind of diagnostic
> software.
>
> Say the government wants to read my encrypted e-mails. John McCown,
> technical director for network security at ICSA Inc. in Reston, Va.,
> says agents could subtly alter my encryption software to make messages
> much easier to crack. Suddenly, secret messages become easy prey.
>
> OK, but to do that, the spies would have to change at least one file
> on my computer. Couldn't I just run a search to see if any files have
> been modified? You can do that with the Find feature in Windows 95,
> and there are more sophisticated programs that will check every sector
> of the disk for alterations. Run such a check every day and I'm safe,
> right?
>
> Wrong, says Bruce Schneier, inventor of the Blowfish encryption
> algorithm and president of Counterpane Systems, a computer security
> firm in Minneapolis. If the FBI got hold of your computer, they could
> rig it so that none of these tests would work any more.
>
> For instance, snoops could alter the operating system so that it no
> longer displays evidence of a tampered file. And if you try to load a
> specialized disk-checking program, the tampered computer could be set
> up to load its own phony version of the software instead - a version
> that would tell you all is well. Because the computer's been
> compromised, you can't rely on any test results. ''The thing being
> modified can't check itself,'' Schneier said.
>
> The cops might not even need to enter your home. Richard Smith,
> security expert and president of Phar Lap Software in Cambridge, says
> some Internet software contains security holes that'll let skilled
> programmers install software on distant computers, without the user
> knowing. ''The feds can try that first,'' says Smith, ''and then in a
> couple of days, if that doesn't work, try a break-in.''
>
> And as long as the federal agents are in your house, why should they
> stop at altering your software? They've got the entire computer to
> play with. ''You could insert devices that would attach to the
> motherboard, that the software wouldn't even see,'' says Phil
> Zimmermann, inventor of the legendary Pretty Good Privacy encryption
> program.
>
> A spy could insert a gadget that would keep a record of every button
> you push on the keyboard. The data could be transmitted over a
> wiretap, or squirted over the Internet the next time you log on. Or
> the device could simply record your typing for later retrieval by the
> black-bag squad. ''It would work all too well,'' says Zimmermann.
>
> There is an upside to all this. The Clinton administration has
> previously sought to stop everybody from using high-quality encryption
> software. At least the new plan targets suspected criminals, and in
> theory leaves the rest of us alone. Federal judges would have to sign
> off on the break-ins, just as they do with phone wiretaps. The feds
> seem to have been fairly responsible in their use of phone-tapping, so
> there's reason to hope that they'd show the same restraint with our
> computers.
>
> But just in case, you might want to start using a ThinkPad or
> PowerBook as the nerve center of your criminal empire. Carry it with
> you when you leave the house, to frustrate visitors wearing gloves and
> black sneakers. And remember what they used to say at Apple Computer
> Inc.: Never trust a computer you can't lift.
>
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