[39692] in Cypherpunks
RE: GAK/WEAK CRYPTO RATIONALE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew.spring@ping.be)
Wed Sep 20 21:32:19 1995
From: andrew.spring@ping.be (Andrew.spring@ping.be)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 18:03:29 GMT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 19:03:29 +0100
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Andrew.Spring@ping.be (Andrew Spring)
Subject: Re: GAK/weak crypto rationale?
>intercepts requested and authorized in the past year. As I recall, the
>number was quite small - around 12K [?]. Someone had found this out
>through an FOIA request, perhaps, (my recollection of it is poor). It was
I think it's about 1200.
>not a large number, anyway. I must conclude that the actual number of
>intercepts is much, much larger than they are saying, and that they must
>be getting what they perceive to be good intel from all this snooping.
>
A more cautious conclusion would be would be that the importance (to the
LEA's) of the busts made with crypto is much larger than the numbers
suggest. You could interpret that a lot of ways: I suspect that
high-profile career-enhancing cases are highly dependent on wiretaps.
