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Privacy advocates say the public's need for encryption tools is greater than ever. ``E-mail messages are just too easy to intercept and scan for keywords,'' Zimmerman told a congressional committee in 1993. Such surveillance, he warned, ``can be done easily, routinely, automatically and undetectably on a grand scale.'' Other experts argue that the government's case is vastly overstated. ``The number of crimes in which encryption is going to be used is infinitesimal,'' says criminologist Jim Thomas. Advocates on both sides of the debate argue with conviction that their view is in the best interests of a healthy...
...those of you that don't know, Tom Ludwig is a freshman at Princeton. He's also a safety that happened to intercept three Harvard passes to ensure his team's 18-7 victory...
That information, coupled with W/1's November report, convinced some Pentagon intelligence experts that Americans might be at the camp. On Dec. 30, according to a CIA cable from Bangkok, a Thai signal unit called Team-213 alerted the Bangkok station that it had intercepted a radio message from a top Laotian military leader ordering American POWS to be flown from the southern province of Attopu to central Laos. In the same cable, the CIA dismissed the report as fabricated, on the grounds that Team-213 was poorly trained and had not made a tape of the intercept...
Satellite images, for example, are useful in the war on drugs to pinpoint airstrips, processing plants and storage areas operated by narcotics cartels in Colombia. Once the drug operations are located, intelligence teams intercept radio messages from the installations and send agents in to scout the area on the ground. When the Colombian military acted on one such U.S. tip, it moved in and seized 26 people, six planes and 20 tons of cocaine...
Which indicates that the new terrorism could be even deadlier than the old. Harder to combat too, precisely because its perpetrators are less organized than their forebears and thus more difficult to spot, track and intercept. To fight the rise of decentralized terror, the U.S. must respond with more sophisticated intelligence gathering. Says a top Pentagon official: "We need to improve our capabilities, to try to outthink them, to outimagine them...