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





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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
Date: January 25, 2006 2:33:17 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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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@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 25, 2006 5:08:15 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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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