From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:16:31 -0800 (PST)
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>
Subject: Re: Telling quote from Bernstein hearing
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On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Tony Coppolino was also the Justice Department's lead attorney in the CDA 
> case in Philadelphia. The Feds are grooming lawyers who have a clue about 
> the Net.

Indeed.  At no small expense, DOJ has been training "CTCs" for each 
U.S. Attorney's office.  CTC stands for "Computer and Telecommunications 
Fraud Coordinator."   I know one guy who got sent to four conferences, 
including one with the Famous But Incompetents at Quantico, but who then 
had the bad taste to leave government employ!

EBD


> 
> -Declan
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> > In the recent hearing of the Bernstein case, Anthony Coppolino for the 
> > Justice Department said:
> > 
> > 
> > "We don't care about the theory; we don't care about
> > the idea Mr. Bernstein has, which was to take a particular type
> > of algorithm and use it to allow for an encrypted interactive
> > conversation.  That's his idea.
> > We don't care about his idea; we care about the
> > result of what it can do."
> > http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/Legal/
> > 960920.transcript
> > 
> > Encrypted interactive conversations seem to be something to be concerned 
> > about...They are afraid of us.
> > 
> > -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
> >    Defeat the Demopublican Unity Party. Vote no on Clinton/Dole in November.
> >    Vote Harry Browne for President.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> // declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com //
> 
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