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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Tue Mar 18 19:05:22 1997

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:26:04 -0500
To: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199703181455.GAA18421@well.com>

At 06:55 AM 3/18/97 -0800, Brian D Williams wrote:
>We are in the process of writing a report on the impact of technology
>and encryption on domestic and international organized crime.  

It'll be interesting to see if she gets the same results I did from a 
similar survey.  I've asked every law enforcement person I've met this same 
question and gotten a uniform answer: none of them has ever encountered 
encryption.  When I went on in a few cases to ask if it seemed like an issue 
worth worrying about, I got the answers that there are far more pressing 
problems -- like just keeping up with the crooks in fire power, computer 
support, ....

 - Carl


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