The Internet surveillance cash cow

The Internet surveillance cash cow
Annalee Newitz , SecurityFocus 2004-04-05

A few large companies and entrepreneurs stand to profit from the FBI's bid for a wiretap-friendly Internet.

The Internet surveillance cash cow 2004-04-08
Siddhartha Jain

I use SSL for communication and billions worth of wiretap equipment will go waste?? I didn't no feds were this dumb!! ...

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The Internet surveillance cash cow 2004-04-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

If end-users resort to strong encription...

(1) is all this money spent for nothing?

or

(2) do the law enforcement institutions have

ways to break strong encryption?...

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The Internet surveillance cash cow 2004-04-09
Anonymous

I imagine the fun loving guys at the NSA in Ft. Meade either have back doors on several off-the-shelf type encryption programs, know somebody who knows a back door, or have the computing muscle to crack the weaker formats. And surely, the NSA would have no problem co-operating with an FBI request f...

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