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Former FBI Chief Keeps Up Anti-Crypto Campaign
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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It should definitely not be illegal to encrypt messages; however I think the US government should start a public-information campaign to educate the world about appropriate use.
For example; personal, non-secret, communication should not be encrypted. The less encrypted traffic there is on the internet then the easier it will be for the US government to track terrorists using encryption.
Care to provide an example of what you consider to be an `assault' on your rights since September 11, much less a `hysterical' one?
I have done so -- see also the discussion thereof (and attendant challenge) in in this journal entry.
In short, while there is plenty of room for argument as to whether USA PATRIOT is necessary, you'd be pretty hard pressed to argue that a law which merely extends to organized terrorism practices which were already ruled constitutional when Kennedy used them against organized crime forty years ago can be considered to be taking away rights now.
Ummm, huh? If we accept that (with a search warrant approved by a judge) the FBI is able to tap your phone, on what grounds would they not be able to demodulate a fax transmission recorded from that phone?
I mean, if you want we can have a discussion as to whether phone taps (with warrant, of course) should be allowed, I suppose, but if we do allow that (as we have for decades now), it's hard to see how this doesn't follow -- and that's what the appeals court ruled.
In other words, nothing new...