On Fri, 22 Jul 1994, Carl Ellison wrote:
1. I'm not a fan of key registration Good, but DONT make comprimises that screw the other guy.
2. If it were forced down my throat, I want to make sure that the escrow agents can form a list of people being tapped so that Ok, so what you are saying is you don't want your phone taped just because your coworker is under investigation. This is a reasonable objcetive, but...
they can detect abuses and possibly notify those tapped that they've been compromised. They can't do that without either an Wait a second, they would notify those that have been victimized? Are you serious? Do you have one case in the history of the united states where they have done this? I think it is better to keep it out of their hands totally, and it would be beter to identify the person doing the taping, not the person being taped.
ID of the equipment owner or some communciations/routing path which can map from equipment ID to my addr/phone/e-mail (to notify me). Ok, so you would, if you had to register your key, also demand that all communication devices be registered also? I don't like this idea, I have a right to communicate and I don't need the governments permision to use the phone. I think you are selling away everything with this proposal.
In other words, I want to see this hypothetical escrow agent (or one of the many) as someone protecting my rights against the interests of a tapping agency. I fail to see how you identifying yourself every time you have to use a pay-phone could possibly lead to a protection of your rights.
Berzerk.