Thursday May 12, 1994

ELECTRONIC SNOOPING TAKES SHARP UPTURN

Wiretaps and electronic monitoring by federal agents, primarily against suspected drug traffickers, grew by a third during the first year of the Clinton administration, the largest increase in a decade. [N722]

This from the same Administration which rationalizes its attempts to emasculate cryptography by citing the need for and widespread use of such methods. Coincidence? You decide. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Scott Collins Alcatel Network Systems| |collsc@aud.alcatel.com Richardson, Texas| | Even if my employers agreed with this, they would never admit it. | | GCS d? -p+ c++@ l u e- m* s+/ n- h+ f? g-(+++) w+@ t-- r- y? | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+