| Andrzej Adam Filip 2004-11-23, 8:27 am |
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LAW ENFORCEMENT IS IN UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT THAT THE WIDESPREAD USE OF
ROBUST NON-KEY RECOVERY ENCRYPTION ULTIMATELY WILL DEVASTATE OUR ABILITY
TO FIGHT CRIME AND PREVENT TERRORISM.
UNCRACKABLE ENCRYPTION WILL ALLOW DRUG LORDS, TERRORISTS, AND EVEN
VIOLENT GANGS [Secret Service to Ed Cummings: "We are the biggest
gang in town"] TO COMMUNICATE WITH IMPUNITY. OTHER THAN SOME KIND
OF KEY RECOVERY SYSTEM, THERE IS NO TECHNICAL SOLUTION.
As if real terrorists or drug lords would use Key Recovery crypto!
Furthermore, Freeh is arguing BOTH SIDES of the issue when he complains
"DRUG LORDS ARE NOW SUPPORTED BY THE BEST TECHNOLOGY MONEY CAN BUY", AND
THEN SAYS we need Key Recovery so we can read their traffic!
Even the NSA is talking Doublethink at us:
* NYT: Stuart A. Baker, General Counsel for the NSA, explained why crooks
* and terrorists who are smart enough to use data encryption would be stupid
* enough to choose the U.S. Government's compromised data encryption
* standard:
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* "You shouldn't overestimate the I.Q. of crooks."
...which is also apparently their view of the American public.
WE ARE NOW AT AN HISTORICAL CROSSROAD ON THE ENCRYPTION ISSUE.
IF PUBLIC POLICY MAKERS ACT WISELY, THE SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS WILL
BE ENHANCED FOR DECADES TO COME.
[1984 Newspeak:] BUT IF NARROW INTERESTS PREVAIL, LAW ENFORCEMENT WILL
BE UNABLE TO PROVIDE THE LEVEL OF PROTECTION THAT PEOPLE IN A DEMOCRACY
PROPERLY EXPECT AND DESERVE. ANY SOLUTION THAT IGNORES THE PUBLIC SAFETY
AND NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS RISK GRAVE HARM TO BOTH.
And what was a critical public safety and n
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