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Re: IP: IETF considers building wiretapping into the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Oct 13 16:57:41 1999
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:23:22 -0400 (EDT)
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Steven M. Bellovin writes:
> So -- how should the back door be installed? In the protocol? In the telco
> endpoint? Is it ethical for security people to work on something that lowers
> the security of the system? Given that it's going to be done anyway, is it
> ethical to refrain, lest it be done incompetently?
If something evil is done poorly, is that more or less evil? Answer
not obvious to me. In any case, a properly implemented end-to-end
encrypted voice stream traveling over a data path with the CALEA bit
set just allows the FBI easy access to strong crypto.
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