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Article: THE FBI AND INTERNET ENCRYPTION CRIMINALS WILL GET AROUND REGULATION; REST OF US NEED TO PROTECT OUR PRIVACY.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 30, 1997
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Internet hype can turn age-old problems into grave new threats.
The biggest tempest may be the concern over the use of encryption, or secret codes, to scramble information sent over the Internet and other computer networks.
The use of codes may thrill people who want to protect the business plans on their office computers and the love letters they send by e-mail. But it worries the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Louis Freeh, and other law-enforcement officials.
Freeh is right to be concerned that encryption can limit the ability of law enforcement to gather electronic evidence from wiretaps and court-ordered searches. But he ...