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| Bush
Executive Order Extending Technology Export Controls |
| Office of International Information Programs,
U.S. Department of State, Washington File (17/08/2001) |
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| This articles announces George Bush's
decision to maintain the U.S. system of export controls on advanced
technology under emergency law once the short-term extension of the
Export Administration Act (EAA) expires on August 20. |
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| Encryption:
Balancing the Issues |
| by Matt Johnson, Consumer Electronics Vision (09/2001) |
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| This article deals with the actual
and proposed changes in the encryption export controls over the recent
years, and particularly the positions taken by two different administrations
as well as the US Senate on the Export Administration Act (EAA). Whereas
the pro-business Bush administration is drafting an executive order
that would try to smooth over some of the concerns raised by the EAA,
some powerful senators have moved to block the Senate from considering
its passage because they claim that national security would be endangered
by the bill. |
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| FBI
to Discuss Packet Tapping |
| by Dan Luzadder and Max Smetannikov, Interactive
Week (05/11/2001) |
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| This press article deals with rumors
spread throughout the telecommunications industry and which suggest
that the FBI is seeking broader wiretapping authority involving ISPs.
Meanwhile, FBI officials respond that they
have no plans to expand packet data wiretapping capabilities beyond
what is already authorized in the 1994 Communications Assistance for
Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). It is still to be determined though whether
the surveillance of packet-mode transmissions, for which the FBI is
fighting for, comes under the CALEA or not. |
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| Terror
groups hide behind Web encryption |
| by Jack Kelley, USA Today (05/02/2002) |
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| This articles reports the
announcement by U.S. officials and experts that the latest method
of communication being used by Osama bin Laden and his associates
to outfox law enforcement is to hide encrypted blueprints of the next
terrorist attack against the United States or its allies in the X-rated
pictures on several pornographic Web sites and the posted comments
on sports chat rooms. |
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