Reply From: "Anthony J. Bettini" <tonyat_private> > Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:16:45 -0600 (MDT) > From: mea culpa <jerichoat_private> > To: InfoSec News <isnat_private> > Subject: [ISN] Infowar, More Hype Than Reality? > > "Information warfare seems to be a marketing exercise rather > than anything else. It's the computer security community trying > to increase sales to the (U.S.) federal government," he said. > > He believes that government plans to seek "mandatory key escrow" > in the name of protection against computer crime was a sneaky way > of imposing control over citizens' privacy. > Information warfare is very real. Whitfield Diffie, a strong opponent of key escrow specifically mentioned the reality and harms of the future of information warfare when he spoke at MIT in April regarding his newly published book, Privacy on the Line: the Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. Along the same lines, when Bruce Scheinder spoke at Beyond Hope about cryptography he warned of cyber-terrorists using jurisdiction shopping as a means towards warfare. > "Mandatory key escrow" means that citizens protecting their > electronic business with encrypted computer code would have to > provide government regulators with keys to that code. Granted I am not a supported of key escrow by any means mind you however, when FBI Agent Smith (if I recall correctly Director of Digital Telephony Division) spoke at the same MIT special aired on CSPAN in support of key escrow, he stated that it was not the so called "government regulators" that would hold the "keys to that code" but a neutral trusted third party such as a bank. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "It's always better to assume the worst." ___ ___ --Bruce Schneider (___) (___) ___ ___ ___ _ _ ___ ___ _ _ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ | . | | \ | | | | | | |_ | | ._| __| \ \ | | | | : | | | _/ | | | | |_ | _|| | ._| __| _/ _/ | | | | |_;_|_|_| \|_|_|___|_|_|___| |_;|. |_; |___| \ \|___|_|_|___| ==|/= __ __/====================|/====|/== _ __/ __/============= -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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