alt.sci.physics

It is ECHELON that they are trying to protect.

If the FBI targets you, they can get all your phone conversations BEFORE
they are encrypted, and can get your password to access your private
cryptography key.

* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
* "Keeping Track of the American People: The Unblinking Eye and Giant Ear"
*
* About six times a week, fifty-two weeks a year, a team of highly trained
* FBI agents secretly breaks into a house, office, or warehouse somewhere in
* the United States.
*
* The agents are members of the bureau's Surreptitious Entry Program, and
* their usual mission is to plant a hidden microphone or camera without
* tipping off the people who occupy the targeted structure.
*
* FBI officials refuse to discuss, even in the most general way, the
* operations of these clandestine hit squads.
*
* Use of break-ins has increased six-fold in the last several years.
*
* Furthermore, the FBI has blamed the security industry for making locks
* and alarms more difficult to defeat.
*
* That was the central justification offered by the FBI when a couple of
* years ago it asked the White House for $27 million in public funds to
* pay the engineering whizzes at the Sandia and Los Alamos National
* Laboratories and several other government research facilities to develop
* ways to defeat "any locking system whether it be mechanical or electronic,
* or computer supplemented."
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*
* The FBI's Rapid Prototyping Facility (RPF) is a laboratory and factory
* dedicated to the design and manufacture of "unique miniaturized devices in
* direct support of various investigative efforts" of the "FBI and other