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Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Jul 18 16:55:27 2000
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:40:41 -0700
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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At 10:27 PM 7/16/00 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>Lucky Green wrote:
>> In
>> particular, the "black box" monitoring device installed at the ISP level
>> appears to be in the process of becoming the implementation of choice.
>> Pioneered by Russia, this design has rapidly been adopted by the UK, and
now
>> is used in the US.
>
>This may be a nit, but there are those of us who hope it is a nit of
>significance: unlike Russia or the US, the black box monitoring device
>is still a twinkle in the eye of the spooks in the UK. RIP is not yet
>law, and when and if it is, it may not include provision for such a box.
Yes, but now that the US has legalized export of crypto hardware to
EU and other friendly governments, they can have 10 of them there overnight
:-)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
