[104035] in Cypherpunks
Re: Web TV with 128b exported
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Oct 8 15:08:31 1998
In-Reply-To: <v03102800b24170b75a4f@[204.1.1.65]>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:29:42 -0500
To: Steve Bryan <sbryan@vendorsystems.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 2:39 PM -0500 10/7/98, Steve Bryan wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>
>>I'd guess that the Export control puppets know that the Web-TV hubs will
>>be subpoena-able by the US even in these other "sovereign" nations.
>>The WebTV centralized infrastructure makes this easy.
>
>This announcement seems to be getting a lot of this sort of reaction but I
>don't see quite why the news is greeted with such animosity. If a duly
>authorized search warrant is required in order to obtain information that
>represents a potential world of difference from having unrestricted ability
>to monitor all communications.
Because there are no (or fewer) *technical* barriers to getting the
information, it introduces weakness into the system.
--
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