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[FYI] Encyrption - "CIA's Tenet Says al-Qa'ida Still a Serious Threat"
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- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:18:24 +0100
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US Department of State
International Information Programs
Washington File
_________________________________
06 February 2002
CIA's Tenet Says al-Qa'ida Still a Serious Threat
[...]
Encryption
One of the most important of these steps involves the FBI's
encryption initiative. Communication is central to any collaborative
effort--including criminal conspiracies. Like most criminals,
terrorists are naturally reluctant to put the details of their plots
down on paper. Thus, they generally depend on oral or electronic
communication to formulate the details of their terrorist activities.
Although the FBI, and the law enforcement community at large, fully
supports the development and use of innovative technologies to ensure
that the United States remains competitive in today's global market,
we remain extremely concerned about the serious public safety threat
posed by the proliferation and misuse of technologies that prevent
law enforcement from gaining access to the plaintext of terrorist
and/or serious criminal-related evidence obtained through either
court-authorized electronic surveillance or the search and seizure of
digital evidence.
The use of commercially available, non-recoverable encryption
products by individuals engaged in terrorist and other serious
criminal activity can effectively prevent law enforcement access to
this critical evidence. Law enforcement's inability to gain access to
the plaintext of encrypted communications and/or computer evidence in
a timely manner seriously impairs our ability to successfully prevent
and prosecute terrorist and/or other serious criminal acts.
This significant challenge to effective law enforcement poses grave
and serious public safety consequences. Unless the FBI enhances its
ability for gathering and processing computer data obtained through
electronic surveillance, search and seizure of computer evidence, and
its ability to gain access to the plain text of encrypted evidence,
investigators and prosecutors will be denied timely access to
valuable evidence that could be used to prevent and solve terrorist
and other serious criminal acts.
[...]
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