[IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 4:00 PM -0400 4/22/04, Pete Capelli wrote:
>But the goal isn't to ban it; just marginalize it enough to be able to tar
>it as a terrorist action.
>
>True, there is no worldwide ban on finance.  But there is the delightful
>'know your customer' law.

That's just a monster in the closet.

Fact is, the more people are able to hack insecure networks, the stronger
the crypto gets. At some point, we converge to instantaneous transactions,
and that means stuff like blind signatures. Anything else costs too much.

When we're at bearer transactions, we don't have audit trails anymore...

Right?

:-)

Cheers,
RAH

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