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Anti-terrorism software that balances privacy and security?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:00:13 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu Date: January 25, 2006 2:33:17 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: FOR IP: Re: [IP] Anti-terrorism software that balances privacy and security?
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:56:16 EST, David Farber said:
From: Ry Rivard <ryrivard () gmail com> Date: January 25, 2006 5:08:15 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Anti-terrorism software that balances privacy and security?
programmed into the software. And because it's all done inside encrypted code, it's not apparent which, if any, of the data has been selected and kept, except by the person who has deployed the filter and has the decryption key."
Scary. *VERY* scary. It means that if the person with the key deploys a filter of the form"anti-war protest", or "voting fraud", or "administration illegal activity", or any other filter designed to catch political opponents and dissenters rather than actual terrorists, they'd get the information with no messy paper trail
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