Mark Rasch Quotations

It's so widespread, ... It's used against many different countries, and law enforcement only has a small handle on it.

If I am driving in France, I would be subject to French traffic laws. If I am driving in Australia, Australian traffic laws. If I am driving the information super highway, you don't know whose laws apply.

What banks have essentially done is put ATMs in people's living rooms. The security is only as good as that of the home computer.

Most companies have a policy that says if you use our computers you consent to our monitoring.

There is nothing about computer security in the law -- nothing.

The bad guy will have gone through many, many steps to conceal his identity, through pirated or hacked accounts.

What I would as a parent argue is that I can consent to my kid's monitoring. Hey, it's my kid. I can read their mail, but the federal law doesn't make any distinction. If I'm reading anybody's communications without their consent or without a consent of one party, I'm violating federal law.

They sell it, and they make money off the personal information that I have given them. And what we are recognizing now on the Internet is that personal information is commodity.

I give out my address to certain Internet places because I need something shipped to me. I don't have a choice.

There's no question in my mind that once we make the networks less secure because of CALEA, we will exploit that lack of security to intercept communications under every legal authority asserted by the government.