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_The Nation_ FBI article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Sat Oct 4 13:11:45 1997
To: crypto list <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 20:36:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eli Brandt <eli@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Declan's _Netly News_ column (by the way, I think the "creepy snooping
through peepholes" language is entirely appropriate at this stage of
the game) had a link to an article on the FBI which I hadn't seen when
it was published. Skip the opening discussion of comparative
prosecution patterns if you want, but read the part on the FBI's
data-gathering, eavesdropping, and black-bag activities. It sheds
some light on why the FBI wanted such an Orwellian wiretap capacity in
Digital Telephony.
http://www.TheNation.com/issue/970811/0811burn.htm
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