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If we had key escrow, Scarfo wouldn't be a problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Tue Aug 14 18:12:42 2001
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:03:29 -0400
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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The Washington Post finally catches on to the fact that the Scarfo case
exists, a few weeks after everyone else wrote about the hearing in Newark.
The front-page story today by Jonathan Krim contains this memorable passage:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55606-2001Aug9.html
"Encryption is virtually unbreakable by police today, with programs that
can be bought for $15," said Stewart Baker, former general counsel of the
National Security Agency and now partner at the Washington law firm Steptoe
& Johnson. Although agreeing that surveillance should be done under strict
guidelines, Baker said that "to a degree, the privacy groups got us into
this by arguing that there should be no limits on encryption, and the
police have to deal with it."
-Declan
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