FC: Ex-FBI director Louis Freeh still wants your encryption keys!

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

It was always a real comfort to have Louis Freeh at the helm of the
FBI, delivering a delightfully predictable sermon on demand about the
importance of total government surveillance. Oh, it was Big Brotherish
to the hilt, of course -- but at least with Freeh, you always knew where
you stood. (You were a permanent suspect with fewer privacy rights
than an Alcatraz inmate during a body cavity search.)

See also, from 1999:

"Louis Freeh: "I have not given up on encryption'"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-00232.html

-Declan

----- Forwarded message from "Trei, Peter" <ptrei () rsasecurity com> -----

From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei () rsasecurity com>
Subject: Louis Freeh STILL wants your keys.
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:27:13 -0400 

http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/04/30/elcock_terror020430

- start quote -

In order to fight this threat, says Freeh, companies
such as Microsoft must be legally obligated to hand
over the keys needed to decipher encrypted
messages. He says it could prevent al-Qaeda from
maintaining encrypted communication over the
Internet. 

As for individual liberties, Freeh says it would be no
more of an infringement than a wire tap on a phone
line. 

- end quote -

[Either Freeh is far more ignorant than he has
appeared in the past, or the journalist mangled
his quotes]

Peter Trei

----- End forwarded message -----



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