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"If only you knew what we knew"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Jul 24 16:55:28 1999
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:51:07 -0700
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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>From time to time the spooks have a talk with various people about the
restrictions on cryptography, and those people stop opposing the
restrictions, and tell us "if only you knew what we knew"
Well here is Cox fresh from grilling the spooks over the loss of
American nuclear weapons secrets. Cox knows what they know, and here
is what he says:
Cox, interviewed in Reason, August/September 1999, page 37
I spent half a year in classified hearings taking testimony
under oath from officials from the National Security Agency,
the CIA, the FBI--the entire intelligence community of the
Clinton administration--and I am utterly unpersuaded of the
Clinton administration's position on encryption.
Lin Hai is a software designer in jail in the Peoples Republic
of China new because he sent e-mail addresses from the Peoples
Republic of China to an anti-communist group in the United
States. The Ministry of State Security would not have been
reading his e-mail if he had had commercially available
encryption technology. We have to keep our goal in mind. And
our goal is getting rid of the communist state and instituting
liberty. Not getting rid of one form of fascism and
substituting another.
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James A. Donald
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