Re: GAK/weak crypto rationale?

[Andrew.Spring@ping.be (Andrew Spring)]

>intercepts requested and authorized in the past year.  As I recall, the
>number was quite small - around 12K [?].  Someone had found this out
>through an FOIA request, perhaps, (my recollection of it is poor). It was

I think it's about 1200.

>not a large number, anyway.  I must conclude that the actual number of
>intercepts is much, much larger than they are saying, and that they must
>be getting what they perceive to be good intel from all this snooping.
>

A more cautious conclusion would be would be that the importance (to the
LEA's) of the busts made with crypto is much larger than the numbers
suggest.  You could interpret that a lot of ways:  I suspect that
high-profile career-enhancing cases are highly dependent on wiretaps.