Bob - FYI -- not sure if this was already posted ?

[Jonathan Wienke]

>            ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - FBI director Louis Freeh said
>Tuesday that criminals were moving increasingly into cyberspace
>and without new laws ``drug dealers, arms dealers,  terrorists
>and spies will have immunity like no other''.
>            Freeh told the International Association of Chiefs of Police
>that software manufacturers should be required by law to include
>a feature that allows police to descramble encrypted
>communications.
>            ``It could take a $30 million supercomputer a year to figure
>out the simplest encrypted message without this feature,'' Freeh
>said. ``And that message might be 'we have the victim and will
>kill him in an hour'.''

Like a kidnapper is really going to encrypt a ransom note so the kidnap
victim's friends won't be able to figure out how to deliver the ransom
money.  DUHHHHHHH!


Jonathan Wienke

What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed" is too hard to understand? (From 2nd Amendment, U.S. Constitution)

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