[87010] in Cypherpunks
Re: The great GAK crack (making GAK economically impossible) (fwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Wed Sep 24 16:32:33 1997
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:39:56 +0100
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com
CC: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-reply-to: <2A22D88740F0D01196BD0000F840F43F954F15@tceis5.indy.tce.com>
(message from Fisher Mark on Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:49:44 -0500)
Reply-To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Mark Leighton Fisher <fisherm@indy.tce.com> writes:
> If domestic GAK is mandated, my recommendation to my employer will
> be to not transmit anything via the Internet that we wouldn't want
> on the cover of The New York Times (or EE Times).
Excellent advice. Perhaps you could get them to pass on your planned
recommendations to the GAKkers in DC.
> As a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign corporation, I would not be
> surprised if our communications were decrypted and the contents
> passed along to our U.S. competitors if domestic GAK is mandated.
> (Can you say, "industrial espionage"? I knew you could.)
I am positive your suspicions are correct.
Adam
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