re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption bred wrote and this means that the fbi will want to track the customer lists of better encryption phones because the only reason a person would want one is to evade the police they don t have to track customer lists they merely have to digitally listen to any phone line and eliminate any that don t have the clipper header signature no one has said how it will be modulated want a bet it s a non standard and hence easily recognisable baudrate devices to scan exchanges and detect modems etc already exist i ve seen them advertised in the trade press once you eliminate crippled crypto devices and ordinary data modems what s left is crypto worth looking more closely at i guess any substitute scheme will have to be v bis or v fast to disguise it though then they just start looking at the data too whatever happens though the effect of this new chip will be to make private crypto stand out like a sore thumb g
