IP: FBI gets cash to spend on anti-encryption research (fwd)
Eugene Leitl
Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Jul 30 05:51:37 PDT 2001
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:28:29 -0400
From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
To: ip-sub-1 at majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: IP: FBI gets cash to spend on anti-encryption research
>
>Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 15:37:43 -0400
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
>To: cryptography at wasabisystems.com
>
>Anyone want to speculate on what the quote in the first bullet
>point means?
>
>You can find a smidgen more info here (search for encryption),
>which is the report I was quoting from:
> ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp107/sr042.txt
>
>-Declan
>
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,45632,00.html
>
> According to the report accompanying a spending bill that's awaiting a
> floor vote in the Senate:
>
> * The FBI will receive an extra $7 million for technology to thwart
> encryption. The appropriations committee intends for it to be
> spent on: "(1) analysis/exploitation of systems to allow access to
> data pre-encryption, (2) recognition/decryption of data hidden in
> plain sight, and (3) decryption of encrypted data."
> * Another $7 million goes to a plan to improve "intercept
> capabilities." The fed-speak for this is "developing broadband
> capabilities, and procuring prototypes capable of intercepting
> transmissions outside of the FBI's technical reach." Translation:
> Create better ways to eavesdrop on cable modems and DSL
> connections.
> * Antitrust enforcement gets a boost. The division, best known
> recently for its dogged pursuit of Microsoft, receives $3.6
> million extra, but $10 million less than the Bush administration
> requested. The committee predicts a slew of mergers because of
> "the collapse of high technology stocks, and the resultant
> downward pressure on all stock prices."
> * Las Vegas, St. Louis, Charleston and Kansas City will split $6
> million earmarked for gun surveillance technology. The plan is to
> spend it on acoustic sensors scattered around downtown areas so
> the location of a gunshot can be triangulated and located.
>
>
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