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

1999-10-30 Thread Per Kangru
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Bjørn Remseth wrote: it Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from John Gilmore on Fri, Oct 29, 199 Organization: Yes Interactive AS Years of work in standards committees and years of technical work can all go for naught, when those responsible for operating

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

1999-10-30 Thread Bjørn Remseth
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 10:12:21AM +0200, Per Kangru wrote: Are you realy sure that it was designed by the Norwegian defense forces? The Swedish military has aswell bought the phone (before the Norwegians) and to the best of my knowledge Sectra has been doing the construction much of their

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

1999-10-29 Thread Bjørn Remseth
it Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from John Gilmore on Fri, Oct 29, 199 Organization: Yes Interactive AS Years of work in standards committees and years of technical work can all go for naught, when those responsible for operating the service are untrustworthy. End-to-end

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

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:21 AM 10/25/1999 -0400, Marcus J. Ranum wrote: 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

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

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

1999-10-24 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 10:49 AM -0400 10/22/99, Declan McCullagh wrote: ... ... PRESS CONFERENCE WITH U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO COLOMBIAN AMBASSADOR ALBERTO MORENO SUBJECT: ARREST OF COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN OPERATION MILLENNIUM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 13, 1999, WEDNESDAY

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

1999-10-24 Thread Tim May
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 from the bottom. Someone at the retail level is

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

1999-10-23 Thread Archer
I used to work for a guy who was an ex NSA man. He had his own company that built crypto phones and sold them world wide. The Saudis bought them as well as a few smaller countries. One time he had guy with " a South American accent" call him to order some phones. He contacted the agency to see if

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

1999-10-22 Thread Declan McCullagh
Note this sounds a lot like what the DEA and Reno have been saying for years: inserting backdoors into crypto products to preserve the balance between privacy and snoopability. So what's changed after the announcement last month? DEA: "We hope that we don't lose the ability to intercept