From: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh)
To: Ernest Hua <hua@XENON.chromatic.com>
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From: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 14:21:14 +0800
To: Ernest Hua <hua@XENON.chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: NSA/CIA to snoop INSIDE the U.S.???
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This is a fucking big story.
Allowing the CIA and NSA to snoop domestically, and using only a handful of
suspicions and anecdotes about cybernastiness and evil cryptohackers to
justify this major policy shift -- well, it's fucking amazing.
Nunn's proposal, unfortunately, was more than a "suggestion."
But Rory's right. DC *is* in the throes of Internet fever, and it'll just
get worse as the summer gets hotter and hotter. It's almost 80 degress
right now.
-Declan
>What?! What the *@#!! is wrong with the people who supposedly smart
>people representing us?!
>
>Ern
>
>-------- From SJ Mercury:
>
> NET FEVER ON THE HILL
>
> Published: June 6, 1996
>
> BY RORY J. O'CONNOR
> Mercury News Washington Bureau
>
> WASHINGTON -- The White House wants a coordinated task force to fight
> terrorism on the Internet. Some senators think the CIA should be
> allowed to work hand in hand with the FBI to fight computer crime on
> U.S. soil. Meanwhile, the federal courts are deciding a major First
> Amendment case that might ban certain information from the Net.
>
> The nation's capital is in the throes of Internet fever.
>
> For the past several months, the condition has become acute, and by
> the end of the year the Internet itself may look far different as a
> result: more tightly regulated, more carefully monitored and more
> expensive.
>
> The latest symptom: a suggestion Wednesday for the elimination of laws
> that prohibit U.S. intelligence agencies -- notably the National
>>>> Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency -- from snooping <<<
>>>> on home soil. The reason: The potential for computer crime and <<<
> terrorism is so great, and the Internet so decentralized and
> international, that police and the FBI must combine forces with spy
> agencies in order to successfully analyze the threat and investigate
> criminal activity.
>
> ''If we're going to live in this kind of world, we're going to have to
> link the intelligence world with law enforcement,'' said Sen. Sam
> Nunn, D-Ga.
>
> For many people in government who work on computer and law-enforcement
> issues, the course of the disease seems painfully slow. They often
> describe the Internet as the Wild West that's sorely in need of a good
> marshal. But for many people who use the Internet, the government's
> efforts are moving far ahead of any real knowledge of a technology
> that, two years ago, almost nobody had heard of.
>
> ''There are not dead bodies in the street,'' said Donna L. Hoffman, a
> professor at Vanderbilt University who studies the Internet. ''It just
> doesn't make sense to rush into legislation.''
>
> [ SNIP ]
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