Forwarded from Dave Farber's list: ________________________________________ From: Rich Kulawiec [rsk@gsp.org] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:41 PM To: Fergie; David Farber; Richard Forno; Lauren Weinstein Subject: US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search Quoting from: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_0114.html National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today. Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act "will be a walk in the park compared to this," McConnell said. "this is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we're going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens." The article, which profiles the 65-year-old former admiral appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007 to oversee all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published on the New Yorker's Web site. (It can be read here in pdf). [...] The PDF link points to: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WashWire.pdf which I'm unable to access at the moment. ---Rsk ------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE