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Fwd: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Sat Oct 17 12:49:27 1998
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:55:14 -0400
Reply-To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
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>From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
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>Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:52:47 +1000 (EST)
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>Subject: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd)
I read this today and thought it might be of general interest.
Darren
> The public key
>
> The perception of people losing their privacy has hit the mainstream. =
ABC
> News began a series on October 5th entitled Privacy Lost.
>
> Operation Echelon, if you haven't heard of it yet you will once mainst=
ream
> media gets a hold of it. We began reading about this and the more
> information we found the more we began to think George Orwell worked f=
or the
> NSA [USA National Security Agency ]. When all the details surface we
> may find that big brother really does
> exist and has for some time. The NSA reportedly worked closely with ot=
her
> security agencies to build an interception network. This network is s=
o vast
> that it can supposedly intercept every electronic communication on the=
> planet. The ramifications of this network existing we think will be f=
ar
> reaching and go a long way to forming online privacy policy in the fut=
ure.
>
> The NSA was also nice enough to provide us with our next topic as well=
. It
> appears that up until a few years ago the NSA had a clandestine agreem=
ent
> with a Swiss cryptography company, Crypto AG. Crypto AG also at one t=
ime
> provided most of the encryption equipment used at the diplomatic level=
> around the world. What's special about this is, the agreement allowed=
the
> NSA to embed key-recovery devices inside products sold to other countr=
ies.
> The NSA could read the information transmitted with these products as =
easily
> as reading the newspaper. This was an ongoing process until March 199=
2,
> when Iranian counterintelligence agents arrested a marketing represent=
ative
> from Crypto AG on suspicion of spying. The battle for privacy continu=
es.
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Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada
DePompadour, Soci=E9t=E9 d'Importation Lt=E9e
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