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In article <1992Nov2.163323.13380@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:

   In article <bhayden.720452439@teal>, bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
   > The October 26, 1992 Issue of Computerworld has an article titled
   > "I SPY" (P.129). The gist of the article is that foreign govts. are
   > using spy technology to obtain trade secrets from U.S. companies. 
   > The trade secrets are then passed on to state owned (or at least
   > state controlled) companies for their competitive advantage. 
   > 
   > The question is: If encryption is limited by our government, how
   > Can we expect to protect ourselves from other governments' spying?
   > One of the worst offenders is appearently the U.K. (One of our
   > staunchest cold world allies). The same argument can be made for
   > the FBI's proposed back door into comm equip.

   The theory is that U.S. companies that the NSA likes will be able to
   buy NSA-blessed black boxes to protect their communications.  This
   is already possible -- the Type II STU-III's are sold only to defense
   contractors.

For you conspiracy theory folk, it is of course well known that GCHQ
does not spy on British communications; neither does NSA on US
communications.  However, there is nothing to stop the two
organisations from trading information.

I am not necessarily suggesting that GCHQ intercepts US comms.

Paul

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