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[FYI] Staatlicher Zugriff auf private Informationen: Wegweisende U.S.-Strategien?
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- Subject: [FYI] Staatlicher Zugriff auf private Informationen: Wegweisende U.S.-Strategien?
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 09:24:01 +0100
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[Ich sehe diese Dinge durchaus als Ausfluss der U.S.-
Kryptographiepolitik: Wenn der Staat auf die (verschluesselten)
Nachrichten waehrend ihrer Uebertragung ueber Kommunikationsnetzwerke
nicht mehr zugreifen kann, dann entsteht ein Begehr nach Zugriff
*vor* dem Verschluesseln oder *nach* dem Entschluesseln. Die erste
konkrete Ausfuehrungsform ist das Staats-Hacking, und die zweite
Version sehen wir hier: Einbruch und Kopie der "intangiblen"
Informationen *ohne* jegliche Benachrichtigung des Betroffenen. Wenn
die U.S.-Feds das durchbekommen, werden wir aehnliche Diskussionen
bald auch in der G8 und in der EU haben. --AHH]
http://cryptome.org/4th-sneaky.htm
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19 May 2000. Thanks to WW, DF and BD.
Source: Interesting People (IP) List.
Fourth Amendment Sneak Attack
Reno's outrageous Secret Searches measure.
By Dave Kopel, of the Independence Institute
The Reno Department of Justice is very good at being sneaky. The
DOJ's lobbyists are on the verge of successfully sneaking into law a
provision which will authorize federal agents to stealthily enter
people's homes, search the homes, and not tell anyone.
The Secret Searches measure is so outrageous that it would have no
chance of being enacted as a bill on its own, when subjected to
public scrutiny and debate. So instead, the DOJ has nestled the
Secret Search item deep inside a long bill dealing with
methamphetimines. The measure is further disguised with the
innocuous title of "Notice Clarification."
Subject to virtually no public discussion, the Secret Searches item
has already passed the Senate, hidden inside the methamphetimine
giant S. 486. Next week, the House Judiciary Committee will take up
H.R. 2987, the House version of the Senate bill, which also contains
the buried clause on Secret Searches (section 301). The federal
bankruptcy reform bill (which has passed both houses, and is
currently in a conference committee) likewise has the hidden Secret
Searches language.
If the Secret Searches provision became law, it would apply to all
searches conducted by the federal government, not just searches
involving methamphetimines or bankruptcy.
When conducting searches, federal agents are currently required to
announce their presence before entering, and to provide an inventory
of any items they take. Because the person whose home or business is
being searched knows about the search, he can exercise his Fourth
Amendment rights, and make sure that the police have a properly-
issued search warrant. He can also see if the search is being
conducted according to the warrant's terms i.e., the police are
searching only for items authorized by the warrant, they are
searching the right address, etc.
But under a Secret Searches law, federal police could enter a
person's home surreptitiously, conduct a search, and not tell the
homeowner until months later.
Even months later, the police would not have to provide an inventory
of "intangible" items which were taken in a search. So if the police
entered your home secretly, and photocopied your diary or made a copy
of your computer hard disk, they would never have to inform you of
their actions.
Should the Secret Searches item be deleted from the methamphetimine
and bankruptcy bills, it is likely that Clinton will try to sneak the
item into a gigantic budget bill, during the Congressional
Republicans' annual fall appropriations surrender. Take note: In a
previous Congress, Clinton was able to obtain authority for
warrantless wiretaps which had been defeated after public debate
earlier in the year by hiding the authority in the year's omnibus
budget bill.
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