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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
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- James Petts (pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : 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 ;-)
-
- You mean at the customers expense, rather...
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