On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:37 PM, coderman <coder...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > this is but a tame example of fiscal absurdity related to interception > infrastructure; it is big business and truth is stranger than fiction!
lawful intercept*, at any scale and jurisdiction, is a profit center. for US intelligence community alone payments to private businesses topped half a billion a year on average for the last three years. see also: http://cryptome.org/2013/08/spy-tidbits.pdf * for sake of argument i'm considering this any agreement and infrastructure which provides customer information (metadata or content) from a business to the government for law enforcement or intelligence purposes. as we've also seen from these disclosures, traditional "lawful intercept" compelled by statute (e.g. CALEA for POTS) is a minuscule contributor to the overall flow of private information to the government. it's not "lawful intercept" if the government buys this data you willing sell, it's "data services" ;) _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
