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Re: Encryption key would lock up criminals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest Hua)
Wed Mar 3 14:00:10 1999
From: "Ernest Hua" <hua@teralogic-inc.com>
To: "Robert Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:09:17 -0800
>But an NCIS spokesman, who declined to be identified, told the hearing that
>just as criminals used telephones at every level for their activities, so
some
>would use the TTPs.
So the phones are being bugged right, eh? To what extent?
>Although Mr Castell admitted that the present generation of criminals were
not
>computer wizards, he predicted that the next generation would be
sophisticated
>users of information technology.
Duh.
>Mr Cope said there had been a lack of dialogue between business and law
>enforcement agencies and he suggested a possible compromise. Agencies would
>bear the additional costs of being able to extract information from TTPs
and
>would only exercise their powers when there was a threat to national
security.
Really? And what is being done right now that does NOT
pertain to national security?
> "Criminals are lazy, greedy and they make mistakes," John Abbott, NCIS
> Director General told the Trade and Industry Select Committee, which is
> hearing witnesses on electronic commerce issues.
And which "stupid" criminals are threatening national security?
Sure ... they can build suit-case A bombs and handle toxic
bio-weapons, but they don't know how to get PGP or type in
their own encryption algorithms ... Yeah ... That's right!
>"We estimate that 60% of our drug seizures are related to the interceptions
of
>communications."
I still have trouble understand the precise relationship
between drugs and national security. Are we being
invaded? Are towns and cities being overrun? Are key
resources being denied to us?
The contradictions keep coming ...
Ern
