SAFE forum -- remarks of Herb Lin

[Herb Lin]

Folks -- I object to the characterization of my remarks about crime prevention
being made with sarcasm.  The complete remark was "Crime prevention ought
to be part of the FBI's mission, ... and it is -- ask them, and they acknowledge
 that."

No sarcasm was intended; the basic point was, and is, that encryption has costs
from
the perspective of the authorized information collection efforts of law
enforcement, and benefits
from the perspective of preventing information crimes such as the compromise of
proprietary
business information.

I am not on the cypherpunks list, so if you want me to respond, pls copy me at
hlin at nas.edu.

herb
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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:57:30 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Rich Graves <llurch at networking.stanford.edu>
To: cypherpunks at toad.com
Subject: Re: SAFE Forum

On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

> "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