"Ending States That Support Terrorism"

Lucky Green shamrock at cypherpunks.to
Thu Sep 13 20:48:59 PDT 2001


Tim wrote:
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(Not that this would have stopped the WTC cells from planning their
attacks in apartments, motel rooms, etc., nor from using the signals
they sent over pagers and cell phones. Good old-fashoned codes are
impossible to defeat.)
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Something must be done about that. How about passing a law that all smoke
detectors (already required in hotels and apartments) contain small cameras
and microphones for law enforcement access in the defense of the homeland
only?

Undoubtedly, this modest measure would be a reasonable compromise between
liberty and safety.

--Lucky, who is presently listening to CNet Radio "The Voice of Technology"
calling for a ban on unescrowed encryption without backdoors in the wake of
the recent terrorist attacks. http://www.cnet.com/cnettv/0-1519376.html#

"You have to know that to gain certain security, you must give up certain
rights". Direct quote from the host.





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