[IP] Anti-terrorism software that balances privacy and security?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: January 25, 2006 2:33:17 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: FOR IP: Re: [IP] Anti-terrorism software that balances  
privacy and security?

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:56:16 EST, David Farber said:

> From: Ry Rivard <ryrivard@gmail.com>
> Date: January 25, 2006 5:08:15 AM EST
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: Anti-terrorism software that balances privacy and security?

> programmed into the software. And because it's all done inside
> encrypted code, it's not apparent which, if any, of the data has been
> selected and kept, except by the person who has deployed the filter
> and has the decryption key."

Scary.  *VERY* scary.

It means that if the person with the key deploys a filter of the form
"anti-war protest", or "voting fraud", or "administration illegal  
activity",
or any other filter designed to catch political opponents and  
dissenters rather
than actual terrorists, they'd get the information with no messy  
paper trail
for people to find out about after the fact....


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