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To: jbe who wrote (8178)	10/13/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 13994

jbe - re: <<sort of OT>> Wiretapping - getting easier all the time. Buried in a funding bill is a little gift for the FBI that will allow roving taps. From a technology standpoint, it's getting easier and easier for someone with the right equipment and access to monitor e-mail, postings, etc. With voice over IP, well, hey, data is data is data. Nothing will be private soon. Mr. K.

To: jbe who wrote (8178)	10/13/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

Most of the fringe parties operate with some paranoia about surveillance by the parties in power. They see themselves as being oppressed by the two-party systems. For the most part, they seem to feel threatened by the Republican party. I've talked to some Lyndon Larouche followers and the Socialist newspapers are all vehemently anti-Republican. For all these totalitarian movements to be pro-Democrats and anti-Republicans must say something about how screwed up the Democratic party must be... If you go the WorldNet site, there is an article in the Chinese paper on internet surveillance of political dissidence and crime also. Internet criminals 'threat to security' AGENCIES Computer police must raise Internet security standards to catch the growing numbers of criminals lurking on China's expanding information highway, the People's Daily warned yesterday. More than 100 cases of computer crimes had been detected in the past two years, the most serious case involving the theft of 10 million yuan (HK$9.3 million). "For the sake of national security and sovereignty, we must fight well in this battle in safeguarding our network security," said the paper. Internet surveillance was hampered by an inefficient computer police force, out-dated computer protection equipment imported in the 1980s and the slow development of protection products. The paper estimated assets worth 500 billion yuan were exposed on the Internet and there were about 700,000 Internet users on the mainland. An expert team of "Internet police" was needed to protect investments against hackers using the worldwide computer network, the paper said. But it admitted there would be "a process" before China could groom enough "Internet police" to protect its networks. Government attempts to police the Internet have focused on filtering out pornography and political messages from pro-democracy activists and Taiwanese or Tibetan independence movements. The first regulation protecting computer systems was issued in 1994 along with the first criminal law against computer crime. But it was only last year that the authorities enacted a criminal law making it illegal to break into computer systems and set a maximum five-year jail term for a conviction. scmp.com