17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
A point made at Senator Ashcroft's crypto hearing going on now, made by James J. Fotis, of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, is that many local police departments do not want the FBI and federal agencies snooping on them, thus, they oppose the FBI's stance on crippled crypto. To be sure, they may fear the feds because of local corruption, but it's a crack in the blue wall solidarity that the FBI has heretofore vaunted. Listen in by RealAudio: http://www.computerprivacy.org/archive/03171998-1/