In <199802241500.KAA14055@panix2.panix.com>, on 02/24/98 at 10:00 AM, Information Security said:

"The network, dubbed Echelon, is described in a new study by the European Parliament titled

'An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control.'"

It's high time Don Mclean (sic) or someone took the extensive documentation collected in the Cryptography Manifesto regarding this, which includes massive USA domestic spying, and started writing news stories about it, and get other news organizations interested in the questions raised. Questions to be put to Senators.

Why?

Because it is ECHELON, not pedophiles, not drug dealers, that is not only the hold-up for freely exportable software, but also for why the FBI has openly moved to regulate all domestic cryptography into oblivion.

The story of massive spying is one "the American people" can understand. Cryptography is too distant.

Go for it, someone, please.

The sheeple don't care. The sheeple are well aware of the abuses of power by our government and they don't care nor have they cared for a long time. So long as they have a roof over their heads, cloths on their back, a color TV and their microwave dinners they are willing to let the government do whatever they want. Where was the great outcry by the people when the government blatantly covered up the assassination of JFK with the Warren Commission? Where was the great outcry by the people with the numerous atrocities committed by the FBI,CIA,BATF, ...? Where was the great outcry by the people over the coverup of the murder of Vince Foster? Where was the great outcry by the people over the murder of innocent children at Waco? They just don't care and this report woun't be so much as a blip on the radar screen. The Feds will just wrap this up in the cover of fighting the four horsemen and it will be business as usual. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: Why look thru Windows? Open the door to the future: OS/2