Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper

[Dave Bird]

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In article <FMEFLOMOCGIMKOKKKLFIEEOACBAA.oml@eloka.demon.co.uk>, Owen
Lewis <oml@eloka.demon.co.uk> writes
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
>> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Dave Bird
>> Sent: 28 July 2001 17:58
>> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
>> Subject: Re: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper
>>
>>
>>  .....  I have to
>>  depend on phone and other switches operated by large businesses who can
>>  be corrupted without my having any say:  end to end crypto resolves
>>  this problem.  It means eavesdropping must be done by targeting the
>>  end nodes, homes or offices, of particular participants.  This is more
>>  labour intensive at the moment so must be done more selectively. It is
>>  also seen as more offensive by innocent targets and their contacts....
>>  people are less happy at the idea of being bugged in their own houses
>>  and may get rather unhappy with police who do it.
>
>Which is, I have little doubt, what many of those who advocate such a course
>would like to bring about. However, it is also the prime reason why such an
>entire shift in the methodology will never come about.

 But of course it is open to individual users to choose such end-to-end
 systems as are directly available from them, and they should do so.


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