CDR: Re: FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education

[Trei, Peter]

Funny, reading the Subject line of this, I immediately
assumed that the FBI was belatedly admitting that it:
the *FBI* needed some 'cyber ethics education'. This
is

On another note, my Microsoft Exchange (spit)
mail client chopped off the 'FBI:' prefix on the
subject line of the reply - Any alphanumeric 
(unspaced) string terminated with ': " gets 
dropped. Sigh.....

[Yes, I know the article is a spoof]

Peter Trei

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> From: 	Tim May[SMTP:tcmay at got.net]
> Reply To: 	Tim May
> Sent: 	Monday, October 09, 2000 7:11 PM
> To: 	cypherpunks at algebra.com
> Subject: 	FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education
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> Monday October 9 4:45 PM ET
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> FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education
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> By DIANE HOPHEAD, Routers Press Agency
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> WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI: We Need Cyber Ethics Education.
> 
> Thou shalt snoop on other children.
> 
> Thou shalt not hide cybercrimes by using encryption.
> 
> FBI agents are spreading a new gospel to parents and teachers, hoping 
> they'll better educate youths that privacy in cyberspace can be 
> economically costly and just as criminal as refusing to narc out 
> fellow students.
> 
> The Justice Department (news - web sites) and the Information 
> Technology Association of America, a trade group, has launched the 
> Cybercitizen Partnership to encourage educators and parents to talk 
> to children in ways that equate privacy and encryption with 
> old-fashioned wrongdoing.
> 
> The nascent effort includes a series of seminars around the country 
> for teachers, classroom materials and guides and a Web site to help 
> parents talk to children. The FBI is distributing copies of 
> "MyPersonalCarnivore" to allow children to set up their own 
> Carnivore-enabled local sites.
> 
> ``In a democracy in general, we can't have the police everywhere,'' 
> said Michael Vacuous, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure 
> Protection Center, which guards against computer attacks by 
> terrorists, foreign agents and teen hackers.
> 
> ``One of the most important ways of reducing crime is trying to teach 
> ethics and morality to our kids. That same principle needs to apply 
> to the cyber world,'' he said.
> 
> "We are willing to drop the antitrust action against Microsoft if and 
> when they meet the legitimate needs of law enforcement," he added. 
> Asked if he was referring to the proposed "WindowsMe (and Big 
> Brother)," he added that he could not comment on sensitive programs.
>