Date: Mon, Mar 15, 1993  (07:16)
From: Dave Hughes <dave@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject: File 8--Bridging the Gaps w/Law Enforcement (View 1)

        What's missing in the 'dialogue' between US government,
including intelligence, types and that part of the counterculture
willing to talk to em at conferences like this one, is creative
thought about what US intelligence agencies - once you admit their
necessity - *should* be doing. Or how they should be, using the new
technologies, solving their age old problems.

        Don't forget that part of their problem is that they don't
*know* any better ways to do what they are doing. And all the self
appointed creative types here have to, for a change, put themselves
in
the CIA's shoes and ask "If I had the mission, how would I do it?"
Its
a therapeutic exercise, once one accepts 'responsibility' for
giving
the orders or carrying out the missions.

        I didn't hear many 'solutions' being offered at the
conference
to the problem of deterring, detecting, or investigating crimes
(and
worse, by foreign agents) done with crypto programs that can't be
busted. Just endless arguments on why, from a civil liberties
standpoint, there should be no backdoors required by law. I agree.

        Now, how do you expect the FBI to solve the problem, Or
should
they just give up, and if billions disappear from your bank
accounts -
c'est la vive?

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