"encrypt all of [our] emails"

[Caspar Bowden]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
>[mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Alec Muffett
...
>Hell, it's not like rational debate regarding "encryption for
>the masses"
>has ever worked - not that it has ever been tried - so perhaps trying
>to put the topic into irrational overdrive will achieve results...
...
>[1] late-night TV pundits, politicians, Radio4 "Today" presenters...

Hmm. Not quite to order, but will this be a start ?
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Caspar Bowden               Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
RIP Information Centre at:    www.fipr.org/rip#media


-----Original Message-----
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=005115670564779&rtmo=lzblQ7nt&atmo=KKK
KKwwM&pg=/01/5/29/dt09.html
Rupert Allason, London SW1

Re: Intelligence links with US cannot change
Date: 29 May 2001

SIR - It was inevitable that following the introduction of Europol and a
common European defence and foreign policy, the European Union would demand
its own army - undoubtedly to compete against and then marginalise Nato and
our American allies.

Now the ambitious federalists have concluded after a year-long study of the
electronic intelligence system ECHELON that this highly beneficial
manifestation of Anglo-American co-operation, dating back to 1942, is
incompatible with Britain's perceived future "at the heart of Europe"
(report, May. 28).

The ECHELON processing system, which binds Canada, Australia and New
Zealand, filters data gathered by GCHQ and the United States's National
Security Agency. It is vital for this country's ability to collect and
analyse strategic intelligence. We do not habitually share this high-grade
data with France or Germany, and, significantly, they have not offered to
dismantle their own intelligence organisations or to open them up to EU
inspection.

The proposition that ECHELON infringes the rights of Europeans is quite
absurd, although the French are obviously still smarting from the two clear
examples of corruption that were exposed by the NSA's interception of
sensitive, and illegal, attempts to influence defence contracts with bribes.

I acknowledge that any army is blind without an intelligence capability, but
that is no reason to handicap GCHQ and isolate the UKUSA Treaty's
English-speaking partners. The solution is to abandon the Euro-army (and
maybe much else besides that originates in Strasbourg) and strengthen our
ties to an alliance that has served Britain and free Europe so well for more
than half a century.