Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

[Dave Howe]

Morlock Elloi wrote:
>> The extreme ease of use of internet wiretapping and lack of
>> accountability is not a good situation to create.
> False.
> It is the best possible situation cpunk-wise I can imagine.
No, it is a terrible situation.
It establishes a legal requirement that communications *not* be private from
the feds. from there, it is just a small step to defining encryption as a
deliberate attempt to circumvent that law, and so a crime in itself.