If this government ever became a tyranny, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny
Senator Frank Church
75'
"In 1991, the FBI persuaded Senator Joseph Biden to include certain language in Senate Bill 266. The new language in the bill required electronic communications services and those who created communications devices to implement only such encryption methods as would assure government's ability to extract the plain text of any voice or data communications in which it took a legal interest."
John Perry Barlow