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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. Re:Not quite related to encryption... by neocon · · Score: 2, Troll

    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...