
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
From Infobeat (http://www.infobeat.com):
*** FBI chief calls for computer crime crackdown FBI director Louis Freeh said Tuesday that criminals were moving increasingly into cyberspace and without new laws "drug dealers, arms dealers, terrorists and spies will have immunity like no other". Freeh told the International Association of Chiefs of Police that software manufacturers should be required by law to include a feature that allows police to descramble encrypted communications. Freeh said he supported a cyber surveillance law with these features which passed out of the House Intelligence Committee. For the full text story, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5663807-3cc