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[ale] Well isn't this special
- Subject: [ale] Well isn't this special
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:56:57 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Keith Watson's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:36:32 +0000")
- References: <[email protected]>
"Watson, Keith" <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> writes:
> At first I thought it was a hoax or April Fools joke. It's not.
>
> Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/government-seeks
>
> U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
> https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html
Nope, not a joke or a hoax. It's 1993 all over again. Remember the
Clinton-era "Clipper Chip" initiative? This is pretty much the same
construct with different icing.
We successfully staved off that initiative last time; it's going to be
harder this time with all the fear people have been fed for the past
decade.
> keith
-derek
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