It was always a real comfort to have Louis Freeh at the helm of the FBI, delivering a delightfully predictable sermon on demand about the importance of total government surveillance. Oh, it was Big Brotherish to the hilt, of course -- but at least with Freeh, you always knew where you stood. (You were a permanent suspect with fewer privacy rights than an Alcatraz inmate during a body cavity search.) See also, from 1999: "Louis Freeh: "I have not given up on encryption'" http://www.politechbot.com/p-00232.html -Declan ----- Forwarded message from "Trei, Peter" <ptreiat_private> ----- From: "Trei, Peter" <ptreiat_private> Subject: Louis Freeh STILL wants your keys. Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:27:13 -0400 http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/04/30/elcock_terror020430 - start quote - In order to fight this threat, says Freeh, companies such as Microsoft must be legally obligated to hand over the keys needed to decipher encrypted messages. He says it could prevent al-Qaeda from maintaining encrypted communication over the Internet. As for individual liberties, Freeh says it would be no more of an infringement than a wire tap on a phone line. - end quote - [Either Freeh is far more ignorant than he has appeared in the past, or the journalist mangled his quotes] Peter Trei ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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