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Posted By : Bozak (CCi 69:1305/1.1)
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Subject : Digital Telephony and The Government
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At the annual "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference" this Spring, the
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FBI backed by longtime "hacker hunter" Dorothy Denning further tried to
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convince the electronic world that 'Digital Telephony' is the way of the
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future to fight crime.
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What it is is an invasion of some of our most basic rights.
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Digital Telephony is a proposal that states ALL future communications
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technology, whether it be electronic or analog, MUST be able to FULLY and
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EASILY (IE built in) accomodate wiretaps. This means now with a flip or a
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switch the Feds could monitor a person's every electronic or voice
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transmission/conversation. Wiretapping is extremely difficult to get a
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warrant for, with only 1,000 or so warrants to wiretap issued last year.
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Those are the legal ones.
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It's fairly common knowledge that all law enforcement also uses illegal
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wiretaps quite often, with little or no regard for the laws that are
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supposed to protect our rights. This means an unscrupulous agent who may
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have something to gain can simply monitor YOUR EVERY word and conversation
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with the touch of a button, because now every phone, modem, cellular,
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beeper, and anything else that communicates has the built in capacity to be
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tapped.
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Guess who's paying for all of this?
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That's right. YOU.
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It will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to re tool factories and
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product lines to meet this new standard. That cost will of course be passed
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directly to you. You're going to be PAYING for this.
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The government wants to take away your right to privacy, and they want you
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to pay them to do it.
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Think about it. The ability to trace your every move, built in to your
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phone, modem, and anything else electronic that communicates.
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Now of course the FBI claims that this will save lives. They already said
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that two serious crimes have been prevented, including a plan to 'shoot down
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an airliner', and a snuff movie with a little kid as the victim.
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Mind if I ask what the HELL that has to do with electronic communications?
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The goverment is eating your rights.
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Fight back, or you'll lose your freedom.
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This post might sound like some kind of a sermon, but I just finished
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reading the article about it (July '93 Macworld) and I'm just sort of
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stunned and pissed off. Why? Because not only are people like Dorothy
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Denning who were supposedly moderates, and could see the 'freedom' side of
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'hacking' going along with this shit with a big smile on their faces, it's
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the fact this bill has made it to Congress, and actually stands a chance of
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being passed. That's nothing short of frightening.
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That means we couldn't have CCi, because everyone's modem has the potential
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to be listened in on illegally by someone whenever they choose. Just one
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agent abusing his/her authority.
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The EFF, along with over 30 other groups and organizations has already filed
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several protests against Digital Telephony.
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I reccommend you do the same, because this isn't the first time a bill like
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this has come up, and it won't be the last. And one of these days a fucked
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up bill like this just might pass.
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PGP anyone?
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