Black boxes in Canada

[Ben Laurie]

Ross Anderson wrote:
> 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 ...

Huh? Where does it say that the content can't be encrypted?

Cheers,

Ben.

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