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for us is to get those
: * conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in
: * response to a question.
: *
: * Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the
: * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further
: * legislation might be required.
: *
: * The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any
: * cryptographic device that did not provide government access.
: *
: * Freeh's hints that the government might have to outlaw certain kinds
: * of coding devices gradually became more explicit. "The drug cartels
: * are buying sophisticated communications equipment", he told Congress.
: * "Unless the encryption issue is RESOLVED soon, criminal conversations
: * over the telephone and other communications devices will become
: * indecipherable by law enforcement. This, as much as any issue,
: * jeopardizes the public safety and national security of this country."
Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War.
It's official:
* http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif
*
* SECRET FBI report
*
* NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY
*
* A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures
* that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be
* crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored
* with real-time decryption.
*
* All cryptography that cannot meet this standard should be prohibited.
The U.S. asked the OECD to agree to internationally required Key Recovery.
* What Is The OECD
*
* The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in
* Paris, France, is a unique forum permitting governments of the
* industrialized democracies to study and formulate the best policies
* possible in all economic and social spheres.
: From owner-firewa...@GreatCircle.COM Wed May 14 18:54:15 1997
: Received: from osiris (osiris.nso.org [207
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Mar...@gov.us.topic.transport.road
his readers: "Don't let it happen. It depends on you."
]
*
* The National Security Agency's Project L.U.C.I.D., with all its
* technological wizardry, is a future, planetary dictator's dream---and a
* Christian and national patriot's nightmare. Someday, the Holy Bible
* prophesies, that planetary dictator will emerge on the scene, lusting
* for blood...
*
* There can be no doubt about it.
*
* The REAL Chief Executive Officer of the NSA is not a human being.
*
* The CEO MUST be Lucifer himself.
Amen.
----
It is technology driving the capabilities, it is our government using
them ruthlessly: without letting us vote on it.
Never before could someone walk up to you and number you by scanning
your fingerprints. A number that is yours and yours alone.
You have been numbered for all time.
No ID card needed once portable fingerprint scanners are deployed all over!
If the government suddenly ordered all citizens to be numbered with an
indelible invisible ink on their arms so they were permanently numbered;
so law enforcement could scan them at will: there would be a revolt.
Yet that is what is happening.
Fingerprints, scanned into a computer, are a number.
The number is inescapably yours.
Modern technology means they don't have to put the number on you, they can
read it off of you by
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