-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- December 11, 1997, NYTimes: Reno Says Plan Will "Match Wits" With Technological Criminals By JERI CLAUSING

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A new first for Reno/Justice! Encryption not even on the agenda! absolutely unreal --of course, being cynical at heart (and having watched the snakes and other assorted vermin inside the Beltway, encryption control will be back...

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/121197crime.html WASHINGTON Justice officials from the world's largest industrial countries met here on Wednesday to draft an international plan that Attorney General Janet Reno said was designed to catch cybercriminals and ensure no safe haven exists for them. ... "Today is an important day in fighting computer crime, and in laying the groundwork for the next century of crime fighting," ... cover the following principles: 1. Ensuring that a sufficient number of trained and equipped law enforcement personnel are enlisted to fight high-tech crime. 2. Creating contacts available on a 24-hour basis to allow countries to move quickly in tracking down computer criminals. 3. Developing faster ways to trace attacks on computer networks and identify hackers. 4. Carrying out a criminal prosecution in the country a suspect flees to, if extradition is impossible. 5. Taking steps to preserve important information on computer networks to help prevent tampering. 6. Reviewing the respective legal systems in each nation to make sure there are appropriate crimes for computer wrongdoing and to make it easier to investigate the crimes. 7. Working with the industry to come up with new ways to detect and prevent computer crimes. 8. Stepping up efforts to use new technologies, such as so-called video links, which would allow obtaining testimony from witnesses in other countries. ... Reno said the contentious topic of encryption regulation was not a focus of the meeting. ..."We were here to discuss a framework," she said. "Encryption was not a topic. Although it was alluded to, it generally was not a topic." ... Asked what the biggest dangers are from technological criminals, Reno gave the example of a hacker who can "sit in his room in Washington, D.C., and steal from a bank in another country," or sabotage the computer networks of companies or governments anywhere in the world. ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be iQBVAwUBNI/M3LR8UA6T6u61AQGLaAH/QnLL+qfrlPR3U+08+GVNX6Fh6g1KyvkT uxawQXMeZKva9c6miAgSRSftgVbueIeHNtjTZBL9npbnzwPl9ASL2g== =xrMG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----