Stafford County Sun, January 1, 2016

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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 42

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Meeting set for Garrisonville work Supporters hope to preserve Mike’s Diner

By TRACY BELL Stafford County Sun

A “pardon our dust” meeting on planned road-construction projects set for Garrisonville Road is set for Jan. 11 at Anne E. Moncure Elementary School in North Stafford.

There, Stafford County and Virginia Department of Transportation officials will go over details and discuss potential traffic impacts of three projects, including Garrisonville Road’s one-mile widening from the intersections of Onville and Eustace roads.

The two-hour, 6 p.m. meeting will be in open-house format, with project presentations at 6:30 p.m.

Anne E. Moncure Elementary School is at 75 Moncure Lane in Stafford.

There, the public will have the opportunity to review project maps and ask questions.

In addition to the widening, county staff and VDOT will discuss U.S. 1/Onville Road intersection improvements, as well as the construction of a southbound U.S. 1 turn lane’s construction at Garrisonville Road.

Thirty-nine properties have been impacted by Garrisonville Road’s planned widening. Twenty-two of them have signed condemnation and quick-take agreements.

At last week’s supervisors’ meeting, the board agreed to allow the condemnation and quick-take of 15 of the 39 properties and businesses along Garrisonville Road.

The affected properties, all in the Garrisonville or Griffis-Widewater districts, are along Garrisonville Road in between the intersections of Shenandoah Lane and Onville Road. The one-mile stretch is set to be widened from four to six lanes.

Two other properties, Mike’s Diner and Professional Collision Center, are still on the chopping block for condemnation but

The widening of Garrisonville Road would put speeding motorists eyeball to eyeball with patrons at Mike's Diner.

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“Technically the building could remain, and remain a restaurant, but it would be difficult with the impacted parking.”

Chris Rapp, director of public works for the county are in a different boat based on their not being affected by a utility easement; they have also resisted the county’s efforts to condemn the buildings, and believe that county staff can redesign the areas that would affect them.

Mike’s Diner’s owner, which operates under the name Urrutia, Inc., declined to comment.

County staff explained that condemnation and quick-take wouldn’t be as feasible on the opposite side of Garrisonville Road because it would impact even more businesses and properties.

But each property owner’s ability to

negotiate with the county on the individual offers allows them to relocate if they wish.

Chris Rapp, director of public works for the county, said of Mike’s Diner: “Technically the building could remain, and remain a restaurant, but it would be difficult with the impacted parking.”

Nearly 600 people recently “liked” a Facebook page called Save Mike’s 610 Diner, and other showed support for the diner using the Twitter hashtag #SAVEMIKES. At the last supervisors meeting, supporters wore T-shirts that said, “Save Mike’s Diner, and email pleas have been directed at the county’s supervisors.

On the Facebook page, proponents of saving Mike’s Diner talked about the food and people they enjoy there, the homecooked feel of the food they’re served, the family-friendly ambiance and a place where they truly feel at home.

The county’s growth brought on the need for a wider stretch of road.

Stafford County has a population that has doubled every two decades since 1950.

For more on the widening project, visit virginiadot.org and taffordcountyva.gov.

Tracy Bell can be reached at tbell@ staffordcountysun.com.

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SHERIFF’S BRIEFS TWO CONVENIENCE STORE ROBBERIES REPORTED IN STAFFORD COUNTY

The Stafford County Sheriff ’s office is investigating two possibly related robberies reported over the weekend.

The first robbery happened about 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 26, at the 5 Twelve C store, at 1075 Garrisonville Road.

Four witnesses in the convenience store told Stafford County deputies that they were hanging out watching football on the store television when four men wearing dark clothing, gloves and masks entered the store, Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office spokesman Bill Kennedy said.

The store clerk told deputies that one of the men quickly came around the counter with a shotgun and demanded that the clerk give him money from the cash register, Kennedy said. A second man then approached the counter and also screamed at the clerk, demanding money, he said.

“He didn’t really understand what was going on because it happened so fast,” Kennedy said.

The clerk then opened the register and gave the robbers an undisclosed amount of money. The two robbers, and two others who had been standing by the door waiting for the others to get the money, fled the store possibly in a dark blue Hyundai heading east on Garrisonville Road, Kennedy said.

Authorities set up a perimeter but did not find anysuspects, Kennedy said.

Then, at 8:14 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, a robbery was reported at the Exxon

Market and Deli at 375 Warrenton Road.

Witnesses in the store told deputies they were near the cash register when four people “came into the store rapidly,” Kennedy said.

One of the suspects had a small handgun and came around the counter to demand money, Kennedy said.

The store clerk opened the cash register and gave the robber an undisclosed amount of money, Kennedy said.

One of the robbers also took an iPhone that had been on the counter near the cash register. The iPhone was later found near the store entrance.

The robbers fled the store, possibly in a newer-model Kia or Nissan, Kennedy said.

The robbers were described as black men and possibly one woman. One robber wore tan pants and a striped hoodie, a second wore gray sweat pants and a black hoodie, the third wore light khakis and a black hoodie and the fourth, possibly a woman, wore black pants and a black jacket with a gray lining in the hood. Two of the robbers may have worn purple gloves. The witnesses told police all four had their faces covered.

Kennedy said detectives are investigating the robberies, which both lasted about two minutes, as being related.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office at 540-658-4400 or Crime Solvers at 540-659-2020.

STAFFORD MAN TO SERVE 30 YEARS FOR CHILD PORN A Stafford County man was emotional, and psychological harm a sentenced to 30 years in prison for pro- child suffers from sexual abuse and ducing child pornography, according sexual exploitation through molesto the FBI. tation and the production of child Michael P. Johnson, 49, also was pornography is well known. This case ordered by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to remain is no different. The harm the victim has on supervised release for life, follow- suffered at the hands of Johnson will ing his release from incarceration, significantly impact the victim for the according to an FBI news release. rest of their life. The sentence Johnson “For approximately three years, earned yesterday provides just punMichael P. Johnson repeatedly raped ishment for this egregious offense and sodomized a child and produced and addresses the substantial needs hundreds of images and videos memorializing the abuse,” said Dana of deterrence, protection of the comJ. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the East- munity, and promotion of respect for ern District of Virginia. “The physical, the law.”

DOING THEIR PART TO HELP Members of the Greater Falls Run Lions Club again provided support to the community during the holiday season. The club packed 25 food baskets for Thanksgiving and 28 food baskets for the recent holiday season for distribution to Hartwood, Falmouth, Rocky Run, Stafford, Conway and Drew schools. They also provided Angel Tree gifts for 57 children in hope of giving them a happier holiday. Debbie Beebe, left, Martha Seymour, Judy Haynes and Carol Murcek pause at a recent gathering to pack boxes.

Jack Justice and Norma Sain also packed boxes.

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HOMEOWNER STOPS BURGLARY ON THOMAS JEFFERSON PLACE The Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office is through a sliding glass door and ran investigating a burglary reported early through the backyard. The homeowner Monday morning. then called the sheriff ’s office.

Deputies responded to a house on Deputies used a police dog to track Thomas Jefferson Place about 3:15 the suspect to the basketball court at a.m., Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office Foxchase Apartments, where the dog spokesman Bill Kennedy said.

The homeowner told police that he lost the trail. Investigators believe the was upstairs sleeping when he heard suspect may have gotten into a vehicle what sounded like a window breaking there, Kennedy said. on the ground floor of his townhouse, Deputies could not locate the suspect, Kennedy said. who is described as black with a medium The homeowner armed himself with a build. He wore dark clothing. handgun and went to the ground floor.

The Stafford County’s Sheriff ’s Office He told deputies he heard what sounded is asking that anyone who saw a suspilike footsteps on broken glass and then “challenged the suspect,” telling him to cious person around Thomas Jefferson stop and that he had a gun, Kennedy Place around 3 a.m. call them at 540-658-4400 or call Crime Solvers at said.

The burglar then left the house 540-659-2020.

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Time to make a resolution and not curse your neighbor It’s that time of the year again; time to look back at the past year, time to assess the previous 12 months, time to see where things went wrong and consider if there had been a moment that a different decision would have had a more agreeable outcome.

The usual resolutions we make at the beginning of a new year have to do with our personal life. We plan to become more healthy, to follow our doctor’s prescriptions for a better life, to do what we know we should have been doing.

Aside from our personal lives, we could make an attempt at improving our relationships with others, whether in the family, in our work place or with complete strangers.

In our small part of the world, much time is spent just getting to the place that allows us to live in our small part of the world.

That daily commute, which takes so much of our free time, often results in frustration and even anger. Many on the road to work or to the grocery store release that frustration by cursing others stuck in the same situation as you: not moving in heavy traffic.

And don’t think you are alone. The person in the car behind you is doing the same thing – about you.

Others take a more direct approach to the frustration. They change lanes, cut off others and in other ways raise the frustration level of those around them.

Nothing you do can change the situation. Traffic will not decrease; accidents will not decrease; the commute time will not shorten.

And there is little we can do to lessen the number of fellow drivers fighting for a quick path to their destination.

The county will continue to grow.

Homes will continue to be built.

Vehicles will continue to multiply on our highways.

The state and the county are trying to make the situation more endurable.

They are planning to ease traffic flow by making the clogged roads wider.

The Interstate 95 fix hasn’t quite worked out how it was expected to, but a possible fix to the fix is in the making. Time will tell.

Now we are on the verge of another fix to the same old problem, just at a

different location.

Our east-west artery through North Stafford is about to get a makeover: Garrisonville Road is going to get wider to make the traffic flow more smoothly.

A meeting at Moncure Elementary School on Jan.11 hosted by VDOT and the county will go into details of the plan, which is already underway.

It’s time to make a resolution to attend the meeting and provide some input on easing traffic.

All those commuters who suffer the traffic to get to high-paying jobs may produce some constructive observations on the plan to widen Garrisonville.

Had there been more input to the I-95 solution, maybe we wouldn’t be fixing the fix.

So resolve to get involved in the growth of the county by attending the meeting about the growth of North Stafford.

It’s better to be enlightened now, than to later sit in your car cursing the traffic around you.

Enduring I-95

On our midday trip up we made great time, about one and a half hours. Knowing that rush hour could be difficult and my son had a plane to catch, we left about 4:30 p.m., thinking we would be on the leading edge of the traffic. What we found was that the leading edge had left long before that and we were in the middle of a stop-and-stop mess of cars merging from all directions trying to cross the 14th Street Bridge and converging on the other side of the bridge.

From there to Occoquan took one hour, with no thinning of the bumper-to-bumper exhaust-spewing collection of vehicles. Then suddenly, for about a mile, it started to move a little faster and then the jam continued until we exited at Route 3, three hours from our departure.

I couldn’t help but think of those who every day commute this route and over the course of a year spending 5 days a week in 4 to 6 hours of traffic. They are spending a month or more sitting in traffic.

And this time of year, Route 3 is backed up more than ever with commuters competing for a piece of the road with last minute Christmas shoppers. This shouldn’t be a surprise since more housing is built for more

people to commute and clog what limited highways we have.

And yet, Stafford and Spotsylvania counties and Fredericksburg continue to allow more homes and commercial space to be built without improving the way traffic has to go. The major solution has been to kick the can down the road by extending the commuter lanes a little farther while building more and bringing in more people along the same route.

No new roads, no by-passes, no connectors and not much new thinking. Just kick the can down the road a little farther so the back-up will reach to the Massaponax exit and not Route 3. Maybe after that we kick the can down to Ladysmith and then Carmel Church.

Isn’t it time for our elected officials from Stafford and Spotsylvania to stop their Ouija board planning and pay more attention to solving the transportation problems before they approve or even think about additional 3,000 home developments, baseball stadiums and racetracks?

Oh, by the way, can anyone tell me where the emergency evacuation route is? The counties could probably raise money with a lottery for a place in line.

Harvey Gold can be reached at info@staffordcountysun.com.

It seems to me…you have to endure it to understand what traffic on Interstate-95 really is.

Most of my usual travel on that highway is between Massaponax and the Warrenton Road exits. Sometimes it extends as far as Garrisonville Road but I try to avoid Garrisonville Road because that can be congested. On occasion I escape to the Northern Neck where a traffic jam means you’re temporarily stuck behind a combine or some other farm machinery.

Now I’m no stranger to traffic. I lived in Chicago for eight years and commuted 42 miles each way. That wasn’t a pleasure but a piece of cake compared to our I-95. And, for 35 years, I endured traffic in Northern Virginia, commuting to Washington.

So, I thought I understood what traffic is until about a week ago when my younger son, who lives in Raleigh, called to say he would be in Washington for a meeting and how about a late lunch. Of course my wife and I jumped at the chance to spend even a little time with him and it was a Wednesday; no holiday to contend with and weekend traffic two days away. The trip up was the teaser.

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Stafford families get calls from their missionaries on Christmas

By JENNIFER ERICKSON For the Stafford County Sun

Christian Leigh, left, and David Sant at their missionary farewell open house.

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from us at Christmas; it is wonderful to know they are close to Christ at this time of the year,” Brad Sant, David’s father, said.

When Jennifer Leigh, Chris’s mother, learned her son was called to Canada, the thought of being apart was difficult.

She eagerly awaits her weekly email from her son.

“It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do as a parent, but you’re so happy they’re doing it,” Denise Sant, David’s mother, said of being a mother of four with two serving missions simultaneously. In the days before Christmas, Denise Sant prepared a list of questions to ask her children when they called home.

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Throughout their teenage years, Christian Leigh and David Sant attended church and school together. The two friends supported one another through Boy Scouts, both achieving their Eagle Scout rank. And both 2015 North Stafford High graduates didn’t come home this Christmas.

Unlike many other college-age students, Leigh and Sant chose to defer their college careers to first serve missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Christmas was the first time since they flew to their missions in late summer they were able to talk with their families. Previous communications were by mail and weekly emails.

In addition to staying in touch with their families, the two LDS elders stay in contact with each other and plan to be roommates at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, after their missions.

Though the boys are good friends, they were called to serve missions in completely different climates. Sant is in Honolulu, Hawaii, while Leigh is in Edmonton, Canada. The high temperature on Christmas Day in Edmonton: minus 13 degrees.

“While it is hard for them to be far

The Leighs and Sants were able to see their missionaries via video chats. “It’s the best gift I received!” Denise Sant said.

The Leighs were joined by several members of their extended family for their Skype session. Christian relayed stories of sharing Christmas presents with the children in his current community and expressed his gratitude for the gifts he received from his family and his church congregation in Stafford. His favorite gifts? Warm weather clothes, including gloves, wool socks and Under Armor.

Chris’s father, Matthew Leigh, was eager to hear how he was doing; however, one of the most touching moments of the day was between his sons. “I enjoyed hearing him talk with his younger brother, Zach, who really looks up to him and wants to follow in his footsteps,” Matthew said.

Weeks before Christmas, Zach had made his own list of what to talk to his brother about, which included wrestling and school, and he noted it was “quite a bit quieter around the house” without his brother.

Being apart from their loved ones is difficult, but the Sant and Leigh families would not have it any other way, they said.

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LIVING WITH DOGS | LAURIE C. WILLIAMS

Christmas is for dogs too, of course We’ve always known Virginia is for lovers. Now it’s been confirmed that Virginia is also for dog lovers. This year, Big Heart Pet Brands conducted a survey of 3,000 pet parents asking how much money they plan to spend on their dogs this holiday season, and guess which state finished in the top 10, well actually in the 10th spot?

That’s right, good old Virginia. The national average that pet parents spend on their dogs is $23.10, but here in Virginia we spend an average of $24.58. Not too bad! Here’s the rest of the top 10: 1.New Jersey: $30.01 2.New York: $29.55 3.Pennsylvania: $28.75 4.Utah: $27.75 5.Georgia: $27.04 6.California: $26.07 7.Washington: $25.81 8.Florida: $25.13 9.Illinois: $24.98 10.Virginia: $24.58 Let’s face it, we like including our dogs in our Christmas and holiday

celebrations. According to the survey, 71 percent of U.S. dog owners will give their dog a gift this holiday season. But why?

To a dog, Christmas is just like any other day, right?

Absolutely.

However we all know gift giving is often as much about how it makes the giver feel as it does the receiver. Survey respondents listed the following reasons for giving their dog gifts: • As an expression of love: 72 percent • Because it’s fun: 60 percent • Because the dog is a family member too: 54 percent • To make the dog happy: 53 percent • To feel closer and bond with their dog: 43 percent The study also confirmed that we are big on including Fido in our holiday traditions as well. If there are stockings hung by the chimney with care, 48 percent hang one

for the dog too! If you’ve received a photo holiday card featuring the family dog, don’t be surprised as 43 percent report this as part of their routine and 32 percent post photos of their dog on social media holiday messages. Lastly, if you happen to visit the home of a dog lover this holiday season, you’re likely to find a dog-themed decoration somewhere as 22 percent admit to displaying a dog ornament or other paraphernalia.

So what kinds of gifts are pet parents likely to give their dogs? I conducted my own survey among a few hundred of my own closest Facebook friends and their

offerings were fairly similar.

Topping most lists were toys, treats and beds. Several listed coats, sweaters and other items of clothing, definitely more in line with the owner’s desires than the dog’s, but all in all, most items would easily fall within that $23 national average expenditure.

So, thankfully, pet parents understand the reason for gift giving in the first place.

It’s not about extravagance or excess, it’s about small gestures to show you love and care about those you love. And that includes your dog!

Stafford business owner Laurie C. Williams CPDT-KA is a television and radio personality, and nationally recognized dog trainer. She can be reached at info@pupniron.com.

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REBA is a beautiful 4-year-old Staffordshire terrier mix. She is extremely intelligent and playful. She would love to be a part of an active household. She is affectionate, friendly and loves everyone.

She would make a great family dog.

Reba can be seen at the Fredericksburg Regional SPCA, (540) 898-1500.

PENELOPE is a 4-year-old white/black domestic shorthair. She is quiet and a little timid with new people but very sweet and gentle. She is good with other cats and she would love a patient household to join. Penolope can be seen at the Fredericksburg Regional SPCA, (540) 898-1500.

BAILEY is a domestic short hair female who is housebroken. Bailey is number C-69436 at the Stafford County Animal Shelter, (540)-658-PETS.

CALLIE is a 7-year-old domestic long hair female calico. She is housebroken and good with kids. Callie is number C-70059 at the Stafford County Animal Shelter, (540)-658-PETS.

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Club Open House 4 p.m.; McCoart Building, 1 County Complex Court, Woodbridge Ken Wright: 703-801-1465

“The Snow Queen” 1 to 3 p.m.: Riverside Dinner Theatre 95 Riverside Pkwy., Fredericksburg 540-370-4300 or riversidedt.com

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“Mame” the Musical

Poe’s Birthday Bash

5 to 10 p.m.; Riverside Dinner Theatre 95 Riverside Pkwy., Fredericksburg 540-370-4300 or riversidedt.com

noon to midnight; Edgar Allan Poe Museum, 1914 E. Main St., Richmond Music, readings, crafts, tours, cash bar, cake, champagne toast $5 per person info@poemuseum.org or (804) 6485523

Jan. 1-3 Home for the Holidays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Gari Melchers Home and Studio 224 Washington St., Falmouth 540-654-1015 or www.garimelchers. umw.edu

Jan. 16 Children sit at the front of Ebeneezer United Methodist Church in North Stafford and listen to a story during the Children's Christmas Eve Service. The special service concluded with the singing of 'Silent Night' by parents and children, who held glow sticks instead of candles.

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Jan. 2 White Elephant Party 7 to 10 p.m.: Adventure Brewing Company, 33 Perchwood Dr., Stafford Bring one wrapped gift 540-242-8876 or adventurebrewing. com

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Sunday evenings; Courthouse Community Center, Stafford Men/women 18+, Teams of 3 compete; $50/team; deadline Jan. 4 staffordparks.com

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Jan. 14 Superhero Party 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Stafford Gymnastics Center 16 months to 5 years old

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Colonial Forge’s Parker reflects on season with the Giants

By David Driver For the Stafford County Sun

Jarrett Parker didn’t waste his third opportunity in the Major Leagues.

The former Colonial Forge High and University of Virginia standout was called up from the minors to the San Francisco Giants for one game in 2014, but he didn’t get into the contest in New York against the Mets.

Then early in the 2015 season the outfielder was called up to the Giants from the minors, but Parker admits he

didn’t make a solid account of himself.

“For me that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I wanted to show what I can do,” Parker said.

Parker, drafted out of Virginia by the Giants in the second round in 2010, wasn’t pleased with his first stint in 2015 with the big league club from June 10 to 19.

“The next shot I get I am going to let everyone know what I can do,” he told himself. “That is what I did. I left it all out on the field.”

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seasoning, Parker came back to the Giants on Sept. 11.

A few weeks later he turned heads when he hit three home runs in a game against the Oakland A’s, the cross-Bay rivals of San Francisco. He had a grand slam and drove in seven runs.

“It really just happened. I was just playing the game, doing what I was taught,” he said.

The last time a Giants player hit three home runs was in 1961 and the player was Hall of Famer Willie Mays, perhaps one of the greatest players ever.

“I think what really was special is I got to do what I knew I could do,” Parker said in a phone interview in December.

“I wanted to do what I was capable of doing. That is what I did. I left it all out on the field.”

Giants manager Bruce Bochy told reporters after the game: “Best offensive game I’ve ever seen. It’s an effortless swing, a different sound to it.”

Parker, overall, hit .347 with six homers and 13 RBIs in just 49 at bats over 21 games with the Giants last season. He enters the 2016 season as the No. 9 prospect in the Giants farm system, according to Baseball America.

With Sacramento, he played in 124 games and had 434 at-bats while cracking 23 homers with 74 RBIs and an average of .282. Parker has always struggled with a high number of strikeouts in the minor leagues, and he fanned 164 times with Sacramento in 2015.

One of his teammates with the Giants last year was Justin Maxwell, a former University of Maryland standout who grew up near Washington, D.C. Maxwell made his big league debut with the Washington Nationals in 2007.

“He is an awesome dude. We have the same agent (Brodie Van Wagenen).

We are both from the same area, we are from the East Coast. It was always cool to talk to him. He is a really down-toEarth guy,” Parker said. Maxwell was sent to Triple-A on Sept. 5 after he spent most of the season in the majors with the Giants.

The Colonial Forge product has been working out this off-season in the Philadelphia area with former Virginia teammate Phil Gosselin, who grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and is now a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks as an infielder.

Parker, 26, planned to spend some of the holidays with his family in Stafford and may try to work out in Charlottesville with some former Cavaliers who are now in pro ball.

The outfielder plans to take part in a Major League program for rookies in January in Loudoun County and then head to the winter home of the Giants in Arizona later in January to get an early start on spring training.

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Giving good guys access to encrypted messages may give it to bad guys Following the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, some politicians are again trumpeting the need to give law enforcement access to all encrypted messages.

The theory is, if we could read the texts and email terrorists send and receive, we would know their plans.

A law would require makers of encryption products to build a backdoor into their software that law enforcement would access.

FBI Director James B. Comey has long advocated law enforcement be given this tool. The New York Times reported recently it appeared Comey had lost an internal struggle within the administration to force Apple, Google and others to decode messages for law enforcement.

It is unclear how, or even if, security software made in other countries could be compelled to provide backdoors to U.S. law enforcement.

The easiest way to understand how this might work is to look at a physical system.

The Transportation Safety Administration requires the ability to unlock suitcases for security inspections. There are luggage locks that give you a unique key to your lock, but also allow a TSA master key to open the lock.

This is the best of both worlds,

theoretically. Only you and the TSA can a backdoor into their product. Juniper open your luggage. firewalls are used to protect commercial At first glance, giving this same kind and governmental data, so there was a real of protection to digital suitcases (i.e. potential that bad guys had gotten data we messages,) seems like a no brainer; let law did not want them to have. enforcement read messages, but Now Wired Magazine reports keep others out. a German security expert, RalfThere is another side we need Philipp Weinmann, believes to consider.

“Juniper culprits repurposed Security experts tell us that if an encryption backdoor previyou open a less-secure backdoor ously believed to have been for law enforcement, others engineered by the NSA, and might use it too. tweaked it to use for their own spying purposes.”

We have to look again at the MARK STOUT The NSA is one of several TSA-approved locks to see how suspects of who actually spied on traffic this might transpire.

A photograph of the keys ran in the through Juniper devices. The Wired article Washington Post. Turns out that’s all you is cited in this week’s Link post at FamilyTechOnline.com. need to duplicate them.

Too many in the public do not know Google “TSA Luggage Keys” and you’ll find people selling the keys and even files they themselves depend on encryption. you can download so your 3D printer can Certainly you do not have an encryption app on your phone or PC, nor do you have make them.

If there is a backdoor for law enforce- to encrypt or decrypt your email before you ment in encryption products, experts fear send it.

Our phones and computers encrypt and they too might be discovered by the bad guys. Just as luggage keys leaked, backdoor decrypt data for us on the fly, invisible to us.

When you shop at Amazon, HTTPS technology may leak, or simply be discovencryption encrypts your credit card ered by hackers.

Recently Juniper, maker of firewalls that information while it is in transit. Someone are designed to keep digital data safe from “listening” in to Internet traffic between hackers, discovered someone had inserted your PC and Amazon would not be able

to read your credit card number. Look at the address bar in your web browser. If the address begins with HTTPS then you are in an encrypted conversation.

The same happens when you log into your bank. More and more sites are using HTTPS security by default. Even this column is encrypted before Google Docs saves it to its server.

We could not do business, banking or review our medical information securely without encryption. It is a mainstay of online commerce.

And the fact is terrorists would simply communicate using other secure means if encryption became insecure. They learned to not use cell phones, and Osama Bin Laden’s home was the only one in the neighborhood without Internet.

Emails could be sent encrypted with one-time pads; manual encryption codes that defy decryption and are said to be unbreakable if used properly. It would require more effort for those using it, but would leave only those of us needing encryption for good things to be using insecure encryption.

For links mentioned in the column or to share this column online, go to http://www. familytechonline.com. For Mark’s contact information, visit markstout.info on the web.

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