At 10:57 AM 7/2/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:

On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

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"Crime prevention ought to be part of the FBI's mission. [Herbert Lin, National Research Council]

In case it's not clear, this was said with much sarcasm... i.e., today's FBI is too often engaged in other pursuits. This in the context of explaining that ubiquitous strong crypto is the best defense against computer crime.

-rich

Crime prevention is *never* part of their mission after all if crime is prevented it's hard to use the crime stats to justify the budget ... John Pettitt, jpp@software.net EVP, CyberSource Corporation, 415 473 3065 PGP Key available at: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0xB7AA3705