Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[David_Biggins@usermgmt.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Anderson [mailto:Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 14:59
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper 

... <snip> ...

> Finally -- and this appears to be less widely realized -- the balance
> in favour of attack rather than defense is still more pronounced in
> smaller countries such as Britain. We have fewer citizens to defend,
> and more foreigners to attack.

And far less native software industry to offend, or to draw attention to
the omissions...

## dave ##