From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 00:28:38 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: FC: Quotes of the Day (and cybercrime)
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James Glave's Wired News article at
	http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10605.html
is nice, especially the quote from Peter Neumann about how this
may be a con game by Janet Reno to get more budget.  After all,
the Feds has been doing computer security for a while, though
not with the expertise of the NSA.  So if they're so hot,
why do they keep getting cracked so badly, and on such critical stuff
as payroll data, which in the government is almost certain to include SSNs?
There's already a National Computer Security Center - she could
ask them for help, rather than starting a competing one.

>LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - To combat the threat of cyber attack, Attorney
>General Janet Reno said Friday a new high-tech crime center will be
>created under the jurisdiction of the FBI.
...
>	Reno played down the Big Brother aspects of an Internet police
>force.
>	"We must not and we will not sacrifice any constitutional
>protections," the attorney general said.

				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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