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Re: Registered Keys - why the need?

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From: Tim Starr
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 08:23
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In article <7851@transfer.stratus.com> cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
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}My question remains: how will key registration preserve the ability to
}wiretap?  If the damage done by wiretaps has been so extensive, unless the
}OC and drug traffic figures are incredibly stupid,

If you mean the statistics, they're completely unreliable (truth being the
standard).  They're all made by agencies with conflicts of interest.  It's
standard practice for these agencies to make up numbers out of thin air, as
they aren't even checked much of the time.


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From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
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Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
Message-ID: <1992Nov6.082359.26256@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 92 08:23:59 GMT
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