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Re: A Silver Bullet to Limit Crypto?

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From: David R Burns
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:46
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>options and their implications before deciding.  There is also a price
>to be paid for LE losing the ability to wiretap that I don't think is
>well understood.  I have been trying to understand these implications

[...]

>Dorothy Denning,
>denning@cs.georgetown.edu

One might note, it'll still be quite possible for law enforcement agencies to
spy on people... before or after the encrypted channel, when the message is in
human-readable format.  (eg, bugs in a phone handset, or a tap on a monitor 
cable, or even something as simple as making some modifications to a keyboard..)

Certainly, these aren't as easy as listening in on someone's cellular or
climbing a utility pole... but they do allow law enforcement officers to do
their job, while protecting the citizen's privacy.

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Subject: Re: A Silver Bullet to Limit Crypto?
Summary: LE can get around almost any encryption
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