more on FBI plans new Net-tapping push

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: July 9, 2006 9:58:16 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on FBI plans new Net-tapping push

Brian Randell wrote:
> Just because the government *claims* it can't break a given  
> code ... :-)
Strong end-to-end security requires far more than strong crypto, anyway.

The code-builders and codebreakers would have us focus attention on  
the "strength" of codes rather than the systems-scale problems that  
create vulnerabilities.

When the FBI does its net-tapping, who has evaluated whether the  
inferences it will draw will make us safer?

The Tennant statement that WMD was a "slam dunk" case should give  
pause to anyone who thinks that evidence acquired by snooping around  
the edges can be used to draw reliable inferences.

Instead, by focusing on wiretapping, what we will see is the  
criminalization of words and images, rather than acts and intent, the  
criminalization of speculation rather than than of physical evidence,  
and the criminalization of association.

When did the standard of proof for invading someone's house go from  
"probable cause" to fantasized evidence produced by listening based  
on the delusions of a (paranoid-tending) FBI agent?

The fellows recently shot in England during an "intelligence" driven  
home invasion by armed police thugs shows that "intelligence" is far  
from neutral.  Scotland Yard "apologized" for nearly killing two men  
in cold blood based on the kind of evidence that the FBI now claims  
it needs.




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