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From: Dik T. Winter on 18 Apr 2008 19:52 use regulations, or international standards should be considered in light of these factors. The public must carefully consider the costs and benefits of embracing government-access key recovery before imposing the new security risks and spending the huge investment required (potentially many billions of dollars, in direct and indirect costs) to deploy a global key recovery infrastructure. ****************************************************************************** Government Steamroller ---------- ----------- Force anyone receiving government money to use crackable crypto? Import restrictions in the U.S.? Outlaw all non-government approved crypto? That would never happen...would it? : http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/ [search for article title] : : The Netly News : : Bill of Goods : : by Declan McCullagh May 9, 1997 : : Senate Democrats are preparing legislation : that requires universities and other groups : receiving Federal grants to make their : communication networks snoopable by the : government, The Netly News has learned. The : draft also includes penalties for "unauthorized : breaking of another's encryption codes," and : restrictions on importing encryption products. : : At a Democratic leadership press briefing, : Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) yesterday said his bill : slightly relaxed export rules in exchange for : greater federal control over crypto imports. But : what he appears to be truly aimi
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:19 needs a traffic # control center. It needs highway patrols; USERS WILL REQUIRE DRIVER'S # LICENSES. THESE ARE THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT." In dissenting on the unconstitutionality of the CDA, which attempted to censor the Internet, Supreme Court Justice O'Connor, together with the Chief Justice, said CDA will be legal as soon as: "it becomes technologically feasible...to check a person's [Internet] driver's license...the prospects for the eventual zoning of the Internet appear promising..." My WebTV has a slot for reading a smart card! Well, noone would ever put up with a Universal Biometric Card in the U.S.! Right? * Recent agreements announced by Sandia include contracts for the * issuance of national ID cards for the People's Republic of China over * the next five years; approximately 10 million fraud-resistant alien ID * cards for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service over * the next three years; 5 million driving licenses for the State of * Alabama and 7.5 million for the State of New South Wales, Australia. 5 million driving licenses for the State of Alabama!!! What did the announcement look like? * November 7, 1996- SANDIA IMAGING SYSTEMS WINS CONTRACT TO PRODUCE * DRIVERS' LICENSES FOR STATE OF ALABAMA. Carrollton, TX (Business Wire). * * Sandia Imaging Systems, a majority owned subsidiary of Lasertechnic
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 18:50 bank clerk who * thought Alvarez's redeposits looked like "structuring", the Internal * Revenue Service seized $88,315.76, the life savings of a hard-working * immigrant. * * The government, of course, had no evidence that Alvarez was using the * money for improper purposes, or was in any way connected with drugs or * drug-dealing, for the simple reason that he wasn't doing any such thing. * * In this case, under the astonishing provisions of our nation's asset * forfeiture laws, the mere administrative finding that Alvarez had * "structured" his transactions was enough to justify the seizure. [ We have Federal laws against terminating someone's benefits based solely (automatically by computer) on "computer matching" hits of possible ineligibility. But NOTHING to protect us from this nearly IDENTICAL use of computer data to terminate "benefits". ] * To the government, the question of whether the money had been legally * earned or was the product of a nefarious drug sale was of no concern. * * Maybe worse than the nebulous structuring provision is a feature of the * same group of laws that plac
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:34 not provide easy government access was : * reinforced by comments made by FBI Director Freeh at a 1994 Washington : * conference on cryptography. "The objective for us is to get those : * conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in : * response to a question. : * : * Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the : * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further : * legislation might be required. : * : * The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any : * cryptographic device that did not provide government access. : * : * Freeh's hints that the government might have to outlaw certain kinds : * of coding devices gradually became more explicit. "The drug cartels : * are buying sophisticated communications equipment", he told Congress. : * "Unless the encryption issue is RESOLVED soon, criminal conversations : * over the telephone and other communications devices will become : * indecipherable by law enforcement. This, as much as any issue, : * jeopardizes the public safety and national security of this country." Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War. It's official: * http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif * * SECRET FBI report * * NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY * * A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures * that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be * crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored * with real-time decryption. * * All cryptography that cannot meet this standard should be prohibit
From: Nick Wedd on 18 Apr 2008 22:14
out of ignorance * and because of apathy and denial of reality: * * The people could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of * reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was * demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public * events to notice what was happening. [ By Walter Cronkite: "Orwell's '1984'---Nearing?", NYT, June 5 1983 In our world, where a Vietnam village can be destroyed so it can be saved; where the President names the latest thing in nuclear missiles "Peacekeeper"---in such a world, can the Orwellian vision be very far away? Big Brother's ears have plugs in them right now (or they are, by law, supposed to), at least on the domestic telephone and cable traffic. But the National Security Agency's ability to monitor microwave transmissions, to scoop out of the air VAST numbers of communications, including telephone conversations, store them in computers, play them back later, has a truly frightening potential for abuse. George Orwell issued a warning. He told us that freedom is too much taken for granted, that it needs to be carefully watched and protected. His last word on the subject was a plea to his readers: "Don't let it happen. It depends on you." ] * * The National Security Agency's Project L.U.C.I.D., with all its * technological wizardry, is a future, planetary di |