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RE: [Raven] [FYI] NL: Intelligence agency authorized to scan satellite communications

"Christian Price" <ccprice@sprintparanet.com> Wed, 12 April 2000 17:37 UTC

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From: Christian Price <ccprice@sprintparanet.com>
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Subject: RE: [Raven] [FYI] NL: Intelligence agency authorized to scan satellite communications
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:22:33 -0700
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This still seems to me to be technical folly.  If the data are not encrypted
until they reach the provider, then the data travel unencrypted over open
lines until they reach the provider.  This would seem to defeat the purpose
of encrypting the data at all.

--Christian

> Communication providers should be demanded by law to
> encrypt the data of their customers and the customers
> themselves should not be allowed to encrypt. The police
> shouldn't be allowed to enter homes for placing bugs
> without proof that the suspected are using encryption to
> hide their communication.
>
> +++chefren
>
> p.s. There is still some time to reject that
> everything but new pointless American-macho RFC...
>
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