From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:23:18 +0800
To: <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Subject: Re: FBI calls for mandatory key escrow; Denning on export ctrls (fwd)
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On 9/3/97 8:30 PM, Lucky Green (shamrock@netcom.com)  passed this wisdom:

>[Freeh]
>There are a number of ways that that could be
>implemented, but what we believe we need as a minimum
>is a feature implemented and designed by the
>manufacturers of the products and services here that
>will allow law enforcement to have an immediate lawful
>decryption of the communications in transit or the
>stored data.  That could be done in a mandatory
>manner.  It could be done in an involuntary manner.
>But the key is that we have the ability.
>-

 ... hmmmm,  immediate *lawful* decryption ... which implies that they 
plan to end run the Bill of Rights with some law that permits them to 
walk in and snoop on the spot ... right now to look at my mail which 
needs no key, just a teakettle, they at least have to stop somewhere and 
find a tame judge, which removes at least some of the immediacy.


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