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Whitehall snoops exposed
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THE GOVERNMENT has been secretly funding research into an
eavesdropping facility that will enable the security services to
listen in on everyone's communications.
The revelation is likely to cause alarm among civil-liberties
campaigners. It could allow the state to get details of almost
every aspect of an individual's life. One academic cryptographer
says it will create a "surveillance society" of which even Hitler
and Stalin could never have dreamt.
The technique, known as the ...
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So Long, Hard Drives
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; On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on the case of an assistant professor who wrote an encryption program called Snuffle. The secret code was so tough to break that the State Department put Snuffle on the U.S. Munitions List. Its author, Dan Bernstein, was told he couldn't
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Is encryption policy jumbled? (Clinton administration's encryption policy)
Security Management
; Last month, the Clinton administration once again revised its encryption policy. While it contains concessions that would make it easier for companies to export stronger encryption products, the emphasis on a global guarantee of law enforcement access to all encrypted communications remains. The
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Cracking the Codes of Terror
The Washington Post
; John Podesta's revival of the discredited idea of "key escrow" encryption would create a Maginot line in cyberspace [op-ed, Sept. 29]. The technique would ostensibly allow the government to crack scrambled phone and computer messages by putting the means for unlocking such communications into the
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