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Former FBI Chief Keeps Up Anti-Crypto Campaign

Posted by timothy on Monday October 14, 2002 @10:30AM 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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Re:Red Herring, and LIES by lal · 2002-10-14 12:11 · Score: 5, Informative

According to Ronald Kessler, author of The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, Freeh is also responsible for the failure of the FBI to keep up with technology. At the end of Freeh's tenure, FBI agents were using 486-class computers and had to email attachments to home computers to transmit pictures. Freeh resisted upgrading the FBI mainframe infrastructure as well. He's clearly not capable of making judgments about crypto.