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- From: boulos@csa2.lbl.gov (Thomas Boulos CDF/LBL x7181)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: PGP warning (ooo; I am scared)
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 09:27 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <1992Dec22.041219.7935@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Space for Rent ) writes...
- >
- >I recieved this from a freind who gave me a copy of pgp; just goes to show
- >ya that big bro doesn't want us to have nice toys like this...
- >
- ..[legal stuff deleted]...
-
- It is not to surprising that any crypto. code falls under such stringent
- rules. The Intelligence Agencies of the US have had long standing policies
- to not only dicourage but prevent the development of superior cryp. tech.
- Excusses of national security are used, but much pressure comes from the
- FBI that any such code available to persons of the USA can be easily broken
- by them, i.e. so they don't have to work too hard to spy on US citizens or
- they are at least guarenteed the ability to be able to break any code in
- a reasonable amount of time.
-
- I don't work in the field, so perhaps what I've said is BS. I've only heard
- it by word of mouth, but neither would I expect to see widely distributed
- as an official policy. Of coarse, with the FBI pushing for digital phone
- tapping equiptment (with remote login capability) to be placed in the
- phone co's shitching crates...
-
- makes ya' wonder....
-
- -tom
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