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Re: Newsnight Crypto Bazaar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Fri Mar 19 12:18:46 1999
Date: 19 Mar 1999 04:40:15 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <19990318200216.A8337@die.com>
Dave Emery writes:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 02:25:15PM -0800, Bill Manning wrote:
> >
> > I find this an interesting statement as I run an IXP and
> > am pretty intimate with the design/construction of most
> > of the popular public IXPs.
>
> Can you state unequivocally that your IXP does not in any way
> support national security monitoring of, or access to traffic ?
It's probably most reasonable to presume that the NSA intercepts your
traffic, rather than to try to figure out exactly how they do it.
It's well-known that uunet used to feed the FBI a full set of
newsgroups on 9-track tapes. I can't think of any reason why they
would stop monitoring the net, or how their monitoring technology
might have fallen behind the state of the art.
If you say it on the net, and you don't want the TLAs (hi guys!) to
hear it, encrypt it. It's that simple.
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