From: Vicente Silveira <vicente@certisign.com.br>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 21:26:06 +0800
To: jya@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: More on ISDN Features
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Btw, a report from the New Zealand Herald ( 1997-07-21 ) says that
New Zealand's secret facility of Waihopai ( believed to be part of Echelon ) was
being upgraded to be able
to monitor an increasing volume of telecommunications on the Pacific. Even more
interesting is that the NZ's Crimes Act was being modified to allow the interception
of
"private oral communications" ( phone calls ) of foreign states, organizations and
individuals.

The report :  http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/hermetic/crypto/echelon/nzh1.htm

-vbs

> ...
> I'm much more concerned about the Echelon system which was (finally)
> reported in the Sunday Telegraph just before Xmas.  This system, it is
> alleged, can intercept and look for keywords in ALL international comms
> traffic.  I believe this also gets a mention in the Europarliament report.
>
> Vote early and often for freely available strong encryption!!
> (whatever JR mutters about 'doing him out of his livelihood' :=)  )
> ...
> Key escrow is another example of complete bollocks, IMHO.
> ...