[116761] in Cypherpunks
Re: FC: Paging Mr. Liddy! Janet Reno wants you
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Aug 20 13:03:54 1999
Date: 20 Aug 1999 16:41:53 -0000
Message-ID: <19990820164153.19704.qmail@hades.rpini.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, politech@vorlon.mit.edu
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
This just makes all the more necessary
encryption programs which the user can
insure have not been tampered with, or
can reconstruct if necessary. Such as:
<http://ciphersaber.gurus.com/>
Adam Powell wrote:
>
> In a page-one exclusive, the Washington Post reports The Clinton
> administration is asking Congress for explicit authority for secret
> break-ins onto private property to lift and change computer encryption
> files. Under the proposed legislation, the US would approach a friendly
> judge, get a search warrant and then seal it, so you will have no notice:
> You won't know the J-folks were there until you tried to use your crypto
> software...
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/aug99/encryption20.htm
>
> "The Justice Department wants to make it easier for law
> enforcement
> authorities to obtain search warrants to secretly enter
> suspects' homes or
> offices and disable security on personal computers as a
> prelude to a
> wiretap or further search, according to documents and
> interviews with
> Clinton administration officials...
>
> "Legislation drafted by the department, called the
> Cyberspace Electronic
> Security Act, would enable investigators to get a sealed
> warrant signed by
> a judge permitting them to enter private property, search
> through
> computers for passwords and install devices that override
> encryption
> programs, the Justice memo shows..."
>
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