From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 95 10:45:22 PDT
To: Ray Arachelian <an253398@anon.penet.fi>
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
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>  0. Mobsters still get caught and thrown in jail.
>  1. They don't use crypto at all.  All records are in the open and 
>searchable.  LEA's wet dream.
>  2. They use strong crypto and can't be caught at all.  LEA's nightmare.
>  3. They use crypto, but are still catchable (oops, the secret is out of 
>the bag now, cancel all the computer related RICO nonsense.)
>  4. They don't use crypto, but keep no records, or hide them well.  They 
>can still be caught by LEA's.
>
>  3 & 4 are the most likely, and the LEA's shameful little secret.  They 
>cry wolf to set a wolf trap, but meanwhile they're hunting wabbits, not 
>wolves.  

Nah, they're hunting sheep, and they've been pretty successful so far.  
Right after the OKC bombing, Freeh was saying that he needed to ban
encryption and get more funds for Digital Telephony to stop terrorists.

2 isn't credible, except for purely-data crimes like money-laundering,
tax evasion, and conspiracy.
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