-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- the even more ominous (and ridiculous) demand which Freeh (apparently even more emboldened) is presenting: "...And Louis J. Freeh, the director of the FBI, raised the prospect of also requiring Internet service providers to have keys to the data flowing over their networks. "Law enforcement needs to have a system for immediate decryption" when a judge determines it is likely that crime is being or is about to be committed, Freeh told the Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information. "We should also look at whether network service providers should have a system for immediate decryption." .... this is nothing short of demanding _three_ key encryption, with the third key a _universal_ master key for the men who claim they wear the white hats, but tinker with the facts in their "crime" labs --whose crime? "ours" or theirs? Given the historical perspective on abuse of power by our federal government (and everybody else down their food chain), this is patently absurd --yet they WILL try for it. asking Congress to evaluate the technology of information exchange, let alone the nuances of encryption, is a waste of effort in the shitstorm of Louis Freeh's inflammatory predictions of the four horsemen. There are not more than a handful who have the intelligence to do much other than collect bribes. why dont the bastards admit it? all they really want is to wire our brains, implant an ID, and enable GPS on us. "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." --Benjamin Franklin ______________________________________________________________________ "attila" 1024/C20B6905/23 D0 FA 7F 6A 8F 60 66 BC AF AE 56 98 C0 D7 B0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQCVAwUBNA76KL04kQrCC2kFAQG1awP+IJLitJVDjuVgN9+ukldgHjLB6TAkT5s/ 8JnFTi/dPcKTpXJk6ZbCsVkag2m4RZ3cOssFm304BuGqpUn/Xoyj1hJvhLkJQXEM gUjASANBQffzTvQAdNNKOHU26ycpY8ji5mPKO5T86JbcWOne3S/BEQX9YiI1JUWA CqqELqiiOX4= =A8qG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----