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Former FBI Chief Keeps Up Anti-Crypto Campaign

Posted by timothy on from the live-freeh dept.

ganns.com writes "Former FBI director Louis Freeh is urging lawmakers to limit encryption products that don't include backdoors for government surveillance." Still urging, that is.

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  1. They can urge all they want by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ive got pig latin, paper and pencil, and too much free time on my hands. Lets see them decrypt my mail. Even I cant read my damn handwriting.

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  2. What is the deal with this guy? by Dr.+Bent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously! What? It's like he lost the password to his encrypted pr0n archive, and ever since then he's just been bitter. Or maybe he's just jealous that the NSA could crack everything and his agency never could.

    1. Re:What is the deal with this guy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      ... or to get back at the people who wouldn't allow government mandated encryption backdoors. I just hope that they don't use a backdoor password like [rot13]Al Quida and The Taliban are weenies, but I want a turban![/rot13] :)

  3. Impact upon Palladium / DRM in hardware by bloo9298 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, if Freeh managed to get a law enforcement backdoor into every crypto device and it applied to Palladium and other DRM systems implemented in hardware, then those systems would be considerably more vulnerable!

    Maybe Freeh isn't so bad after all. :-)

  4. Re:Red Herring, and LIES by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

    >The algorithms and the source will not go "back in the can."
    I believe the proper & more accurate expression is "getting toothpaste back in the tube"

    I much preffer a quote from Joe Garelli on News Radio - "You can't take something off the Internet. That's like trying to take the pee out of a swimming pool".

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  5. Re:Legality by BitterOak · · Score: 4, Funny
    For example; personal, non-secret, communication should not be encrypted.

    I agree. I've also started flying only in the nude. The fewer clothed passengers there are in airports, the more time security officers can concentrate their searches on those who are potentially hiding something under their clothes.

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  6. In other news by linuxwrangler · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's a sorry state of affairs when this is one of the more intelligent commentaries on controlling encryption.

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  7. Re:Still urging... by Locke!Erasmus · · Score: 2, Funny

    And shortly after that, the backdoor howto will appear on slashdot, right?

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