Black boxes in Canada

[Ross Anderson]

The Government of Canada:

    "The central tenet of the proposal is that service providers would
    be required to have the technical capability to provide access to
    the entirety of a specific telecommunication transmitted over their
    facilities, subject to a lawful authority to intercept. This would
    include the content and the telecommunications-associated specific
    data associated with that telecommunication."

So it will become an offence to connect a Palladium PC to a Canadian
phone line, just as it would have been an offence in France five years
ago.

We'll see the old crypto policy debate of the 1990s re-run, but with
some people perhaps taking different sides ...

Ross