Re: IP: Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

Elaine -Hfb- Ashton wrote:
> *sigh*
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> e.
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> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:59:26 -0400
> To: [email protected]
> From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
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> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html
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>     Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws
>     By Declan McCullagh ([email protected])
>     1:45 p.m. Sep. 13, 2001 PDT
>
>     WASHINGTON -- The encryption wars have begun.
>
>     For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a
>     terrorist attack could prompt Congress to ban
>     communications-scrambling products that frustrate both police
>     wiretaps and U.S. intelligence agencies.
>
>     Tuesday's catastrophe, which shed more blood on American soil
>     than any event since the Civil War, appears to have started that
> process.
>
>     Some politicians and defense hawks are warning that extremists
>     such as Osama bin Laden, who U.S. officials say is a
>     crypto-aficionado and the top suspect in Tuesday's attacks, enjoy
>     unfettered access to privacy-protecting software and hardware
>     that render their communications unintelligible to eavesdroppers.
>
>     In a floor speech on Thursday, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire)
>     called for a global prohibition on encryption products without
>     backdoors for government surveillance.
>
>     "This is something that we need international cooperation on and
>     we need to have movement on in order to get the information that
>     allows us to anticipate and prevent what occurred in New York and
>     in Washington," Gregg said, according to a copy of his remarks
>     that an aide provided.
>
>     President Clinton appointed an ambassador-rank official, David
>     Aaron, to try this approach, but eventually the administration
>     abandoned the project.
>
>     Gregg said encryption makers "have as much at risk as we have at
>     risk as a nation, and they should understand that as a matter of
>     citizenship, they have an obligation" to include decryption
>     methods for government agents. Gregg, who previously headed the
>     appropriations subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department,
>     said that such access would only take place with "court
> oversight."
>
>     [...]
>
>     Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, a hawkish think
>     tank that has won accolades from all recent Republican
>     presidents, says that this week's terrorist attacks demonstrate
>     the government must be able to penetrate communications it
> intercepts.
>
>     "I'm certainly of the view that we need to let the U.S. government
>     have access to encrypted material under appropriate circumstances
>     and regulations," says Gaffney, an assistant secretary of defense
>     under President Reagan.
>
>     [...]
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Wow just jopining this group and noticing how far back the posts go.
Just odd seeing previous years post in a live news group ;p

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Islaw