U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet

[Bill St. Clair]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
>
> U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet

Yawn. We fought this battle ten years ago. PGP won.

> No one should be promising their customers that they will thumb their nose
> at a U.S. court order,b  Ms. Caproni said. They can promise strong
> encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain
text.

Well, Ms. Caproni, which is it? Will we have strong encryption, or
will you be able to see plain text? I know which technology I'm going
to use.

-Bill