Re: What we are Fighting
From: Tim May
Information "I am not a klook" Security wrote:
Subject: Terrorist FBI, on Terrorism Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:58:23 EDT
Statement for the Record FBI Director Louis J. Freeh before the Senate Judiciary Committee, September 3, 1998
The FBI supports a balanced encryption policy that satisfies fourth amendment concerns for privacy, the commercial needs of industry for robust encryption, and the government's public safety and national security needs.
But it bears constant repeating, especially to the skeptical, that there are NO DOMESTIC CRYPTO LAWS.
We all know this, but Freeh and Company continue to mumble about "meeting the legitmate needs of law enforcement." What can they be speaking of?
Obviously his side is contemplating domestic crypto restrictions.
They are planning domestic crypto restrictions, GAK, and all the rest of what we have long expected.
They have stated so openly; ~"if we hear a lot of encrypted hiss from [CALEA]
intercepts, we'll need GAK to be the law of the land". (a tilde before the
quote means I am paraphrasing).
In fact, at the same time the FBI used to say they weren't calling for
such a law, they were pushing behind the scenes for it.
* http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif
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* SECRET FBI report
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* NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY
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* A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures
* that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be
* crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored
* with real-time decryption.
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* All cryptography that cannot meet this standard should be prohibited.
And here's the ECHELON/UKUSA slant:
* What Is The OECD
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* The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in
* Paris, France, is a unique forum permitting governments of the
* industrialized democracies to study and formulate the best policies
* possible in all economic and social spheres.
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Guy wrote:
I still think someone (without a job ;-) should test the export law by pulling in PGP from outside the US and then immediately putting it back at the same site.
The Ft. Bragg Net-offering of PGP (since withdrawn) has been available on our site without restrictions since April 1998 in the public interest: http://jya.com/pgp262-mil.zip (includes the Ft. Bragg page; 274K)
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