From mdiehl at triton.unm.edu  Thu Jul 15 16:45:39 1993
From: mdiehl at triton.unm.edu (J. Michael Diehl)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 16:45:39 PDT
Subject: The right to be secure (fwd Computerworld article)
In-Reply-To: <9307151828.AA08970@banff.procase.com>
Message-ID: <9307152345.AA12039@triton.unm.edu>


According to Paul Baclace:
> >>   typically a court order, to both key escrow authorities.
> >"Typically", of course, means "not always", and it's coupled with the phrase
> I think they must be implicitly refering to the anti terrorist act
> which allows surveillence without a court order if national security
> is involved or if foreign nationals are involved, etc.

Now this is news to me.  You mean that they can listen to me if they can 
rationalize that there is a threat to national security?

Here's a scenerio.  John Q. Public HAS a copy of pgp and some LEA knows it.  It
must be that he's some kind of subversive. Therefore, he is a threat to national
security.  It is therefore legal to infringe on his rights?  Maybe this is a bit
of exageration...maybe it's not....


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