I did. Back doors are a good idea. We need strict laws to cover there use. fsck that, Jacob. Dennis Eberl > From: Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:44:02 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2734] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: US Congress already discussing bans > on strong crypto] > > ----- Forwarded message from Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Sender: brett@localhost > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:21:18 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: US Congress already discussing bans on strong crypto > Precedence: bulk > X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html > > Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws > By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 1:45 p.m. Sep. 13, 2001 PDT > > WASHINGTON -- The encryption wars have begun. > > For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a > terrorist attack could prompt Congress to ban > communications-scrambling products that frustrate both police wiretaps > and U.S. intelligence agencies. > > Tuesday's catastrophe, which shed more blood on American soil than any > event since the Civil War, appears to have started that process. > > Some politicians and defense hawks are warning that extremists such as > Osama bin Laden, who U.S. officials say is a crypto-aficionado and the > top suspect in Tuesday's attacks, enjoy unfettered access to > privacy-protecting software and hardware that render their > communications unintelligible to eavesdroppers. > > In a floor speech on Thursday, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire) > called for a global prohibition on encryption products without > backdoors for government surveillance. > > "This is something that we need international cooperation on and we > need to have movement on in order to get the information that allows > us to anticipate and prevent what occurred in New York and in > Washington," Gregg said, according to a copy of his remarks that an > aide provided. > > President Clinton appointed an ambassador-rank official, David Aaron, > to try this approach, but eventually the administration abandoned the > project. > > Gregg said encryption makers "have as much at risk as we have at risk > as a nation, and they should understand that as a matter of > citizenship, they have an obligation" to include decryption methods > for government agents. Gregg, who previously headed the appropriations > subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department, said that such access > would only take place with "court oversight." > > [...] > > Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, a hawkish think tank > that has won accolades from all recent Republican presidents, says > that this week's terrorist attacks demonstrate the government must be > able to penetrate communications it intercepts. > > "I'm certainly of the view that we need to let the U.S. government > have access to encrypted material under appropriate circumstances and > regulations," says Gaffney, an assistant secretary of defense under > President Reagan. > > [...] > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > Fsck that!!! > > > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
