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Interesting meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus Leech)
Tue May 5 15:46:09 1998
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 14:48:33 -0400
From: "Marcus Leech" <Marcus.Leech.mleech@nt.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
I was at a meeting today, of a SIG within the Ottawa-Carleton Reseach
Institute,
called "45th Circuit". The SIG is mostly lawyers and other types
interested
in technology law, trademarks, patents, etc.
The topic of the meeting was government policy wrt cryptography. The
speakers
were rather dull, but there was a senior justice department lawyer
there to answer questions.
I asked her what fraction of all successful prosections by the crown are
successful due entirely to wiretap evidence. She said "very, very
few".
Which certainly puts the law-enforcement-access argument into even
further
disrepute than it is already enjoying...
On a darker note, however, she said "but we don't know know how to do
the realtime
thing yet"--implying that once they figured out how to make it
economical, none
of the statistical arguments stated above would be relevant.
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