Of more relevance to this list, perhaps, is yesterday's testimony of the
FBI's Michael Vatis with the bureau's usual crypto-complaints:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/3.htm
convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the World Trade
Center bombing, stored detailed plans to destroy United States airliners on
encrypted files on his laptop computer.
-Declan
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34659,00.html
U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3:00 a.m. 1.Mar.2000 PST
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government
may need sweeping new powers to
investigate and prosecute future
denial-of-service attacks, top law
enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Anonymous remailers and free trial
accounts allow hackers and online
pornographers to cloak their identity,
deputy attorney general Eric Holder told a
joint congressional panel.
"A criminal using tools and other
information easily available over the
Internet can operate in almost perfect
anonymity," Holder told the panel.
Holder said the Clinton administration is
reviewing "whether we have adequate
legal tools to locate, identify, and
prosecute cyber criminals," but stopped
short of endorsing a specific proposal.
Currently no laws require U.S. Internet
users to reveal their identity before
signing up for an account, and both
fee-based and free services offer
anonymous mail, Web browsing, and
dialup connections.
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