RE: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread Lucky Green
James A. Donald: > The US officials planning the deal did not consciously know > they were lying. The European offiicials that accepted the > deal did not consciously know they were being lied to. People > with that kind of hostile and cynical attitude do not get > appointed to those kind of jobs

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 07:12 PM 5/18/99 -0400, Dan Geer wrote: > Let us eliminate the impossible so that the remainder, >however improbable, is true. (1) If the NYT has it, then it >cannot be news to the victims (2) If it is not news to the >victims, then it cannot be news to >at least some of their g

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread Hadmut Danisch
> pieces, they didn't disassemble the antennas and reduce the stuff, as ^ sorry, should be "staff". My english is horrible...

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread Dan Geer
> What does shock me, however, is that so many European countries > have been completely blind to what has been going on up to this > point. Let us eliminate the impossible so that the remainder, however improbable, is true. (1) If the NYT has it, then it cannot be news to the vict

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread Hadmut Danisch
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:18:11PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > What does shock me, however, is that so many European countries have > been completely blind to what has been going on up to this point. They are not exactly blind. They just love this certain way of simulating blindness, cal

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes: > >A short rant: > >I am not the least bit shocked to read, in the link published here >earlier today: > >http://www.nytimes.com/techweb/TW_Report_U_S_Uses_Key_Escrow_To_Steal_Secrets. >html > >that the US has, for some time, been conducti

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread John Young
The author of the STOA report on Echelon, Duncan Campbell, offers the report: http://www.iptvreports.mcmail.com/stoa_cover.htm We offer a zipped version Duncan provided: http://jya.com/ic2000.zip (961K) There are two others in the series which are now completed of comparable interest,

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread Gregg Siegfried
If this is the same report that the STOA was speaking of last week (Duncan Campbell's Interception Capabilities 2000) you can find it at: http://www.iptvreports.mcimail.com/interception_capabilities_2000.htm. Gregg Siegfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyone have a link for the actual report? Thanks

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread Richard Thieme
anybody who wanted to know this knew it. It was a neccessary reality as the dissolution of boundaries blurred the distinctions between nations and multi-national corporations. Europeans do this overtly. The French call it "economic patriotism." They bugged the first class seats in trans-Atlantic

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Motyka
> > If the Europeans know what's good for them, they'll start pushing mass > use of crypto instead of fighting it. > > Perry > Or, rather than give up such a ripe source of elint, they'll try to set things up so that only they can snoop on their own people. Sort of a property rights issue rathe

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread Rob Lemos
Anyone have a link for the actual report? Thanks. -R

US spying on Europe

1999-05-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
A short rant: I am not the least bit shocked to read, in the link published here earlier today: http://www.nytimes.com/techweb/TW_Report_U_S_Uses_Key_Escrow_To_Steal_Secrets.html that the US has, for some time, been conducting economic espionage against European countries, and that an E.U. rep