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Re: IP: IETF considers building wiretapping into the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Oct 14 10:32:08 1999
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Allen Ethridge <ethridge@onramp.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:49:38 -0400
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In message <199910140102.UAA00978@mailhost.onramp.net>, Allen Ethridge writes:
> On 10/13/99 at 7:49 PM, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) wrote:
>
> > Why not refrain in the *expectation* that it'll be done incompetently?
> > ...
> >
> > If they want to play big brother, why not give them more than enough rope,
> > point at a conveniently-placed tree limb if necessary, and then stand back?
My concern is my privacy -- a poorly-designed system is likely to let lots of
folks in, not just law enforcement officers operating under a legitimate
warrant.
>
> None of these things happened when CALEA was implemented in the traditional
> circuit-switched voice network. CALEA advocates already have a success to poi
> nt
> to.
CALEA is not yet implemented; among the reasons are that the requirements from
the FBI mandate a complex, expensive design. In other words, it's not a
success.
--Steve Bellovin
