September 4, 1997 Encryption Tops Wide-Ranging Net Agenda in Congress By JERI CLAUSING The word encryption traditionally conjures images of spies and sophisticated international organizedcrime rings. But with the dawn of the Internet, it is also the key to private communication and secure business transactions. And while Clinton on July 1 took a very public stand for a tax-free, self-governed Internet, his administration is pushing to create a key-recovery system that would keep encrypted codes on file for law enforcement officials to access. Translation~~These ratfuckers are trying to keep a low profile until they can get all of their draconian legislation passed, at which time the sheeple will find out why the "rubber boots" rider was attached to the legislation. How long before the Great InterNet Tax Avoidance Crisis (TM) requires them to access the records of all companies and individuals in order to make certain that the royal "we" are not "cheated" by our evil fellow citizens. "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." Translation~~"Just as we need to be able to beat the citizens and shove toilet plungers up their ass if we have reason to suspect that they have knowledge of a crime in their mind." Freeh wants to make certain that the citizens don't have the same ability as the Whithouse, the Department of Justice, Congress, etc., to LIE to the courts, to the people, to each other. So if _we_ steal a private company, murder members of a religious sect, get filthy fucking rich on inside deals, then _we_ will go to jail. TruthMonger "What part of 'Nuke the Bastards!' don't they understand?"