Cybercops especially worry that outlaws are now able to use powerful cryptography to send and receive uncrackable secret communications. That could make some investigations impossible and create a breed of “crypto-criminals.”
Predictor: Manson, Kevin
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “The Information Revolution,” edited by Donald Altschiller, carries a reprint of the Jan. 23, 1995, U.S. News & World Report article “Policing Cyberspace” by Vince Sussman. Sussman explores First Amendment rights in cyberspace. He writes: ”Cybercops especially worry that outlaws are now able to use powerful cryptography to send and receive uncrackable secret communications. That could make some investigations impossible and create a breed of ‘crypto-criminals’, says FLETC’s [FBI Instructor Kevin] Manson. But there is widespread agreement across the Internet and among entrepreneurs hoping to do business in cyberspace that cryptography is necessary for privacy in a networked universe.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: The Information Revolution (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Policing Cyberspace
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 114
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