Tim May's quicker on the draw than I am :-)
You know you've tweaked the FBI when they drag out child pornographers,
terrorist bombers, hackers, and other usual suspects on a hearing
that they didn't initiate and didn't want to be dragged into.
To some extent, they always start speeches on
Anybody noticed that if crypt were
outlawed, then Carnivore would have big teeth and that the FBI speech would make sense?
Yours Truly,
Gary Jeffers
BEAT STATE!!!
infocalypse. Here's an excerpt from the hearing transcript (why weren't
drug smugglers mentioned? someone's slipping).
I take that back. That scare story appears later on (keep reading)...
-Declan
KEVIN DIGREGORY, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, DOJ
As we have seen throughout history,
Someone, I think Bill, talked about the FBI's usual n-horsemen of the
infocalypse. Here's an excerpt from the hearing transcript (why weren't
drug smugglers mentioned? someone's slipping).
Interestingly enough, except for a passing reference by one witness ("I
support encryption"), that was
At 8:57 AM -0500 7/26/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
When it comes to maintaining the size of government or giving more
money to police, there is rarely gridlock. Look at the ever-increasing
FBI budgets, for instance.
If there were a terrorist attack that the FBI says could have been
prevented by
At 9:18 PM -1000 7/25/00, Reese wrote:
At 11:19 PM 25/07/00 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Get a clue.
You do know, don't you, Reeza, that neither "irony" nor "gullible"
are in any English dictionary?
And that subject line? What, am I supposed to provide a link from m-w.com
now? Get a life.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Routers) -- FBI Director Louis Freeh announced
today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation takes the criticism of
its wiretapping computer sniffer Carnivore "very seriously." In a
hastily-called press conference, he acknowledged that the FBI had
"underestimated the
One industry's terrorism is another man's Napster.
True, there's little hope of being able to challenge all these laws in
court, and even if possible, the Supreme Court is not that likely to
see things through cpunx lenses.
(There's also a side issue of legitimizing groups that don't always
all this...I refuse to believe the FBI has an IQ of 80.
It was a problem for me, but I got over it.
There is such a thing as "organisational IQ". Seemingly bright and sane
folks will do extremely dumb things if immersed in departmental mentality
long enough. Peer pressure, if you will.
When it comes to maintaining the size of government or giving more
money to police, there is rarely gridlock. Look at the ever-increasing
FBI budgets, for instance.
If there were a terrorist attack that the FBI says could have been
prevented by Carnivore, I suspect you'll see what little
At 5:01 AM + 7/26/00, Anonymous wrote:
By John Schwartz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday , July 25, 2000 ; E01
Federal law enforcement officials defended "Carnivore"--the FBI's
controversial Internet wiretap system--through more than two
acrimonious hours of grilling by Democratic and
At 8:08 PM -1000 7/25/00, Reese wrote:
At 12:15 AM 25/07/00 -0700, Tim May wrote:
In my view, what I heard did far more bad than good. Witnesses were
babbling about the need to see what the Carnivore system did, so that
the rights of the unpersecuted whom the warrants did not apply to
could be
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The Linux /dev/random driver (and its *BSD cousins) come up for
discussion periodically on various lists. Some old discussions
are archived at: http://www.openpgp.net/random/
Alternate designs also get discussed, mainly Counterpane's
Yarrow: http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html
I'm thinking
Well, there are basically two schools of thought on the random number
design. Or perhaps it's fairer to say that we can identify two extremes
along a continuum of RNG design.
One extreme is to put a lot of faith in the crypto; Yarrow, with its
relatively small entropy pool and reliance on the
As a simple minded observer far removed from inside DC politics,
I can't help wonder if the real purpose of disclosing the existance of
Carnivore was not based on the nieve assumption that Congress and public
would gladly accept such a trunk wiretap device as necessary and
proper, but
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