[Note from Matthew Gaylor: Professor Dave Farber is the new chief
technologist at the FCC and was present for Clinton's recent Internet
security meeting. Read point number 4 and then read Declan
McCullagh's article on Louie Freeh's request for more tax dollars to
fight online drug smugglers, child pornographers, spies, and
terrorists. Am I the only one to think Clinton speaks out of both
sides of his mouth?]
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 05:27:25 -0500
From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP: Clintons security meeting
I was there with my UPenn hat on. It was a very open meeting with
some relatively frank discussions. I will try to report more fully
latter today but:
1. there were but two academics incl myself about 30 people total
2.the network was, at least this time, not a problem. It was insecure
computer systems and software. The use of commodity systems for
critical tasks was one of the root causes as was lack of security
hygiene (safe computing)
3. the industrial players committed to establish a sharing of attack
information
4. the President in response to a private question re crypto said to
me that he and Al had fought and would continue to fight the
government establishment (I assume FBI and Intelligence) to open it
up.
It was a very enlightening and useful meeting for me and for I hope others.
More latter
Dave
ps the President is a fast thinker
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:01:36 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Freeh says DoS attacks require FBI access to plaintext
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34388,00.html
Everything Hacked but the Budget
by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
1:15 p.m. 16.Feb.2000 PST
Justice Department and FBI officials
Wednesday told a Senate panel that last
week's denial of service attacks provide
ample reason to give law enforcement
bigger budgets and additional powers.
[...]
Repeating a long-standing theme, he said
data-scrambling encryption products
posed a real danger to police, who
needed access to descrambled
documents or communications.
During previous appearances on Capitol
Hill, Freeh has warned of drug smugglers,
child pornographers, spies, and terrorists
cloaking their communications with
impunity.
Now he said hackers, such as the ones
responsible for the denial of service
attacks, could encrypt their files and
make the evidence "all but worthless to
us."
"Without the ability of law enforcement to
get court-ordered access to plaintext,
we're going to be out of business," Freeh
said. "If it is unaddressed, we're not going
to [be able to] work in many of these
areas."
He said that the FBI is finding more and
more cases -- including 53 last year -- in
which suspects are using encryption
products like PGP to shield their files.
[...snip...]
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