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- From: James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
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- In article <C19ouu.74v@exnet.co.uk> Damon, dhd@exnet.co.uk writes:
- >In the US the FBI are trying to make it illegal to encrypt in any
- effective
- >way, and for example, phone companies will be fined something like
- US$1000 per
- >line per day that the FBI can't decrypt.
-
- There is also a bill under discussion which would make it mandatory to
- fit all telecomms apparatus with connection for, or inbuilt, tapping
- devices. I suppose it's the logical progression of free speech: the NSA
- should be able to eavesdrop for free ;-)
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