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Re: USA Today on encryption; FBI's Louis Freeh responds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathaniel Daw)
Fri Sep 26 23:00:50 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Nathaniel Daw <daw@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 1997 18:31:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: Declan McCullagh's message of Fri, 26 Sep 1997 10:22:42 -0400
Surveillance extremist Louis J. Freeh, writes in the USA Today:
(courtesy Declan McCullagh)
> Indeed, state and local law enforcement authorities account for
> 50% of all the electronic surveillance court orders in the United
> States.
Does anyone else find this statistic profoundly shocking, and for
reasons opposite from Herr Freeh's intent? 50% of surveillance court
orders come from the Feds? Wow! Where would one go to verify this, or
find out more about government wiretapping patterns?
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