Re: NSA back doors in encryption products

2000-05-23 Thread John Gilmore
Rick Smith wrote: > If the NSA approaches Microsoft to acquire their support of NSA's > surveillance mission, then the information will have to be shared > with a bunch of people inside Microsoft, and they're not all going > to keep it secret. Two people in Microsoft would need to know. Bill Gat

[FYI] (Fwd) EU Echelon investigation knobbled? [OT]

2000-05-23 Thread Axel H Horns
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Re: Hidden "secret search" provision in the meth bill & two others

2000-05-23 Thread Declan McCullagh
I mentioned the "secret search" provisions in the meth bill before the House Judiciary committee in a May 9 article: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36209,00.html This is similar to a letter from Reno in January that said cops could do secret searches and seizures (in the context of snat