From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 06:15:37 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Billy boy's satellites [Was - Floating DataHaven]
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At 4:26 PM 8/20/96, Brian Davis wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

>> There's some obvious crypto/GAK/New World Order issues: many countries may
>> not care for a communications system which allows citizen-units or enemy
>> agents to make phone calls from the middle of the Kalahari desert or from
>> within the jungles of Burma.
>>
>
>Or the streets of New York or Washington.  Not too long ago, in my former
>life as a federal prosecutor, I attended a Computer Crimes conference at
>Quantico (the FBI part, not the Marine part).  One of the speakers
>discussed LEO satellites and satellite cellular phones.  The "difficulty"
>in wiretapping those phones was of grave concern to most of those present....

I am sure this is a very real concern and a very real motivation for some
of the work being done on international key escrow (GAK--Global Access to
Keys?).

The various governments may be trying to get the several LEO satellite
projects to incorporate GAK circuitry now, before it's too late. Once the
satellites are up, and the handheld units sold in Fry's and CompUSA, it's
too late.

I'd hate to see the U.S. on the same side of the issue of free and open
communications (which means encrypted, if people so choose) as Burma,
Libya, Singapore, and France.

--Tim May

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