| The Digital Telephony Bill states up to 15 years in jail | for unauthorized tapping of wireless telephony. It seems | that the EFF puts this on the plus side, as an example of | the enhanced rights to privacy in the Bill. I have a problem | with this approach. In presence of strong crypto, would even | alligator clipping have to be outlawed? (Hidden microphones | and other intrusions inside your estate is obviously another | matter.) The problem here is twofild. First, as you point out, strong cryptography alliviates the need for strong laws, a point missed yb our legislators. Second, in the US, there is a court which handles federal wiretap requests. Its granted 6500 wiretap orders out of 6500 requests in the last 20 years. It seems to be too easy to get a federal wiretap order, and there exists insufficient oversight. Adam -- Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small, annoying bloodsucker.