C I A non-profit venture capital company

[Q G Campbell]

Donald

Just because the NSA uses workstations from Sun Microsystems does not
mean that they thus become a security risk to non-NSA users of Sun kit
like myself!

I may even be using a more secure technology as a result of this if some
of the security enhancments have transferred from this specialist
governmental area to the commercial sector.
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Quentin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald ramsbottom [mailto:donald@ramsbottom.co.uk]
> Sent: 01 March 2001 07:20
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: C I A non-profit venture capital company
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> Below is from a law ezine I receive (see after text for=20
> copyright details),
> I could not resist posting the extract below. Now call me an=20
> old cynic but
> who in the world would rely on anonymizing software, funded=20
> by the CIA,
> even if the code is "open source", especially when millions=20
> if not billions
> are spent by them trying to make sure they CAN track everybody down.
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> I'm not having a premature "senior moment" am I? Its not=20
> April Fools day is
> it? Have I slept a whole=20
> month.........................................
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> "CIA BACKS ANONYMITY SOFTWARE
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> The Central Intelligence Agency's non-profit venture capital=20
> company, In-Q-Tel has zeroed in on software called Triangle=20
> Boy, which promises user anonymity on the Internet. Triangle=20
> Boy was developed by SafeWeb, a start up company in which In-
> Q-Tel has invested about $1 million of its $30 million current=20
> fiscal year budget. SafeWeb's web site currently provides free=20
> access to an "anonymizer" that lets anyone surf anonymously=20
> and securely by typing in a Web address. It replaces the URL=20
> bar with a JavaScript implementation and establishes an=20
> encrypted connection from the user's desktop using 128-bit SSL=20
> with cookies automatically disabled. Triangle Boy, which has not
> yet been deployed, will go still further, using SafeWeb's=20
> Privacy Matrix technology (patent pending) to allow users to=20
> get to SafeWeb's anonymizer through a third party. The code=20
> will be open source, allowing anyone to set up third-party=20
> access to the anonymizer. The CIA plans to use the technology=20
> primarily to protect the anonymity of its own employees as=20
> they do their work, but it would undoubtedly be used to gather=20
> information without leaving a trail as well. Further=20
> information may be found at=20
> https://fugu.safeweb.com/webpage/press_room/in_q_tel.html"
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> copyright stuff: BYTES IN BRIEF is a joint publication of=20
> Sensei Enterprises,=20
> Inc., an information technology consulting firm and Nelson &=20
> Wolfe, a business and technology law firm. The "designer"=20
> version of "Bytes" may be found at http://www.senseient.com
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> Donald Ramsbottom BA LLb (Hons) PGdip
> Ramsbottom & Co Solicitors
> Internet and Global Encryption Law Specialists & General UK =20
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