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Re: "Italy police warn of Skype threat" [USE THIS VERSION - left some stuff out]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Sat Feb 14 15:37:10 2009
From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
To: cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <AFAE4C72-5D72-4BA1-B213-7919D46DEE91@lrw.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:24:40 -0500
"Criminals in Italy are increasingly making phone calls over the =20
internet in order to avoid getting caught through mobile phone =20
intercepts, police say...."
But that's only half the story. Much of the issue goes in the other =20
direction: The Italian press apparently gets much of its information =20=
from crime reporting from wiretaps, often of government officials! So =20=
the government is trying to control both directions: Preserve its =20
ability to wiretap while stopping the press from doing so.
Whole article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7890443.stm
-- Jerry=10
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