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Re: Justice Department criticizes online anonymity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Wed Mar 1 19:58:34 2000
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:04:40 -0800
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
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At 01:36 PM 3/1/00 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Of more relevance to this list, perhaps, is yesterday's testimony of the
>FBI's Michael Vatis with the bureau's usual crypto-complaints:
Michael was the FBI chief I put on the spot at the '98 RSA conference. He
proudly pitched how the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center
would deter foreign countries from snooping and penetrating the Internet
and communication systems of U.S. corporations. However, he quickly fell
silent and stammered when I asked how they intended to protect us from the
ECHELON activities of our UKUSA partners.
--Steve
