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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
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- Subject: Re: A Silver Bullet to Limit Crypto?
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- Date: 13 Nov 92 19:46:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.172726.1727@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> denning@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
- > [...] There is also a price
- >to be paid for LE losing the ability to wiretap that I don't think is
- >well understood.
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-
- Before the invention of electrical communication, people ensured their
- privacy of conversation by looking for people within earshot.
-
- Now, however, people have the illusion of privacy. [Imagine someone
- whispering into a cellular phone.]
-
- That privacy is returning to reality, gradually.
-
- This means that law enforcement (LE) and crooks alike have had a brief
- period (150 yers?) of easy access to what was intended to be private
- conversations -- such that the tapper had little likelihood of being
- discovered.
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- When this brief period finally comes to an end, LE will have to go back to
- doing what it did before.
-
- What was that -- or was it so long ago that people have forgotten?
-
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