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From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn)
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Subject: Re: Some comments on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
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I think Mike and Joe miss the point. The idea of the act is to make it
easier for OUR spooks (the NSA) to monitor the communications of naive
American civilians by giving them a false sense of security.  Certainly no
one in US government or industry would rely for a minute on the prohibitions
of the act, nor would the KGB give a damn about American laws.

Phil