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Re: Germany Frees Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jukka E Isosaari)
Fri Jun 4 12:58:16 1999
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 19:25:26 +0300 (EEST)
From: Jukka E Isosaari <jei@zor.hut.fi>
To: David Hayes <david.hayes@wcom.com>
Cc: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>, ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk,
cryptography@c2.net
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, David Hayes wrote:
> Who would have thought that ECHELON would turn out to be a program to
> improve civil liberties?
Well, I did for one. Let's just hope it doesn't stop with Germany.
Keep publishing more reports and information about Echelon! ;-)
Even if most governments don't care about civil liberties, they
do care about economic espionage and the fact that they are losing
billions of dollars to US if they don't protect themselves and their
citizens from their spy-systems. Which means, that governments will
have to get their citizens to use crypto and spook-secure systems. :-)
National crypto-industries can expect huge benefits the better these
facts about echelon spying are conveyed and presented to the local
governments.
++ J
