[13565] in Cypherpunks
Re: San Jose Mercury News Washington News in Brief Blurb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Collins)
Thu May 12 13:50:25 1994
Date: Thu, 12 May 94 12:43:44 CDT
From: collsc@snowbird.aud.alcatel.com (Scott Collins)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: droelke@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com
>
> Thursday May 12, 1994
>
> ELECTRONIC SNOOPING TAKES SHARP UPTURN
>
> Wiretaps and electronic monitoring by federal agents,
> primarily against suspected drug traffickers, grew by a
> third during the first year of the Clinton administration,
> the largest increase in a decade.
> [N722]
>
This from the same Administration which rationalizes its attempts to
emasculate cryptography by citing the need for and widespread use of
such methods.
Coincidence? You decide.
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