Encryption Scare

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Meeks, Brock (MSNBCi) <Brock.Meeks () MSNBC COM>
To: 'dave () farber net' <dave () farber net>
Subject: Encryption Scare
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:21:05 -0800

Dave,

Our intelligence and law enforcement officials constantly beat the drum 
that
encryption must be controlled; that it is the hands of criminals, 
child
abusers and of course, terrorists.

We are told, again by these folks, that terrorists are actively using
encryption technologies to thwart capture and detection.  Odd that we 
have
seen no direct evidence of this use of technology save some anecdotes
bubbling up from the Louis Freeh-era FBI vis-à-vis "encryption on 
laptops"
confiscated from some terrorist bust.

So with the news of the high profile arrest over the weekend of Khalid 
Shaik
Mohammed and a captured "treasure trove" of information on computers 
and
computer disks we STILL have not seen any evidence of encryption.

Indeed, there are leaks already about what was or is on those 
computers:
plans for more terrorist attacks, all data accessible without having 
to
break any encryption scheme.
--farber

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