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"Benjamin Chad Wienke" <woodwose@mailexcite.com>Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:43:48 +0800
At 07:33 PM 11/26/97 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>In message <v03007800b09f865249e2@[172.17.1.150]>, Rick Smith writes:
>>
>> I recently spoke informally with a couple of sub-Cabinet level officials
on
>> crypto policy. Their comments indicated that the FBI et al are
dominating
>> internal meetings on the subject with the same polarizing rhetoric
they're
>> using in Congress. One official said that he was accused of
intentionally
>> aiding terrorists at one of these meetings.
>
>During a recent application for crypto export approval, which should have
>been routine, we were contacted by an individual from the *FBI* (not from
>BXA) who refused our export license because we didn't have a key recovery
>system *in place now*. This is despite the facts that:
>
>- the export license was to use our strong cryptography products for
> communications between our international sales offices and head office;
> this used to be a rubber-stamp license, and
>
>- we are in the process of implementing key recovery technology as part of a
> a seperate export approval for our DES-56 products.
>
>I couldn't even get an answer as to why the FBI had jurisdiction over our
>export approval.
I guess the FBI has decided that it is going to be the secret police when
the time comes. (And I had been thinking it was going to be the ATF!) I
wonder if they could be egged into a turf war amongst themselves--if they
are fighting each other, they have less time and energy to fuck with us...
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"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:45:07 +0800
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In <DFIBLIDNKAFKDAAA@mailexcite.com>, on 11/26/97
at 09:34 PM, "Benjamin Chad Wienke" <woodwose@mailexcite.com> said:
>I guess the FBI has decided that it is going to be the secret police when
>the time comes. (And I had been thinking it was going to be the ATF!) I
>wonder if they could be egged into a turf war amongst themselves--if they
>are fighting each other, they have less time and energy to fuck with
>us...
No the turf war woun't start until they have eliminated all external
opponents. Once that is done then things will start to really heat up
between BATF, FBI, CIA, Pentagon, et al.
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