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Cringely On Electronic Tapping

Posted by michael on from the we-love-you-too-george-dyson dept.

sckienle writes "Robert X. Cringely, the PBS one, has an editorial discussing electronic wire-tapping and the Big Brother concerns. There isn't any new information in the article, but he does a nice summation of the state of law enforcement today. This may be a good article to show your family, friends and congressmen."

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  1. Re:WASTE, Encryption, Trust by Troed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lucifer, by IBM. Later known as DES - when the keylength had been lessened but the characteristics of the cipher had been strengthened against differential attacks (then unknown outside the NSA).

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