[119129] in Cypherpunks
Privacy is an antisocial act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Sat Oct 16 13:29:06 1999
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:07:12 -0400
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:02:59 -0400
>To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Subject: FC: Privacy is an antisocial act, from my weekly Wired column
>X-Url: Politech is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/
>
>Here's my second week-in-DC column. Topics include MS antitrust lobbying, a
>conservative who's opposing library filtering, White House privacy czar,
>trademark bill, IETF debate, ITU critique, etc:
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,31937,00.html
>
>An excerpt:
> PRIVACY IS AN "ANTISOCIAL ACT":
> Scott Bradner wasn't surprised to hear
> the FBI say this week that they wanted
> an easily wiretappable Internet.
>
> The veteran Internet Engineering Task
> Force area coordinator and Harvard
> University networking guru has already
> had his arm twisted by the Feds.
>
> It happened when the IETF decided to
> wire encryption into the next-generation
> Internet protocol, IPv6.
>
> "Someone very high up in the US Justice
> Department told me that week that for
> the IETF to support encryption was an
> 'antisocial act,'" Bradner said.
>
>
>
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