[102831] in Cypherpunks
Re: US Updates Crypto Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Wed Sep 16 15:31:51 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:58:49 -0700
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
> As the Vice President stated in a letter to Senator Daschle, the
> Administration remains committed to assuring that the nation?s law
> enforcement community will be able to access, under strictly defined legal
> procedures, the plain text of criminally related communications and stored
> information. The Administration intends to support FBI?s establishment of
> a technical support center to help build the technical capacity of law
> enforcement - Federal, State, and local - to stay abreast of advancing
> communications technology.
>
Considering that domestic controls are not discussed they are certainly
mentioning a lot of activities that sound like they would be taking
place here in the US. They also mention a wide range of LEAs that would
welcome domestic controls.
Is this just a continuation of the attempt to control domestic use by
export policy?
Mike
