UK INTERNET LAW "BREACHES EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS"

1999-10-25 Thread Caspar Bowden
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE = ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BILL FAILS HUMAN RIGHTS AUDIT JUSTICE, the legal human rights organisation, and the Foundation for Information Policy Research today (Monday, 25 October) warn that those aspects of the Government's draft Electronic Communicati

Bob Barr to IETF: Don't help the snoops!

1999-10-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32100,00.html 'Don't Help the Snoops' by Declan McCullagh 10:45 a.m. 25.Oct.99.PDT The Internet's standards body should not craft technology to aid

Re: DEA says drug smugglers used crypto & Net but cops got around it

1999-10-25 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 9:35 AM -0700 10/24/99, Tim May wrote: >At 3:33 AM -0700 1999-10-24, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: > >>I have long doubted the very premise that encrypted communications >>are a asset to criminals and a threat to law enforcement. The >>standard way LE penetrates criminal organizations is to work fr

Re: DEA says drug smugglers used crypto & Net but cops got around it

1999-10-25 Thread Marcus J. Ranum
>>including use of the Internet, encrypted telephones, and cloned cellular >>telephones They don't say what "encrypted telephones" mean, either. Remember, these are the same guys who try to tell people that spread spectrum is "encryption" or at least "secure." I'll bet $100 to a $1 that if there