re clipper chip from dan mckinnon dan mckinnon canrem com i have lurked here a bit lately and though some of the math is unknown to me found it interesting i thought i would post an article i found in the saturday april toronto star clipper chip to protect privacy politics is of course dirty pool old man and here we have a classic example the nsa and the administration have been working on this for a long time and in parallel with the announcement to us techies we see they re hitting the press with propoganda it s my bet the big magazines byte scientific american et all will be ready to run with a pre written government slanted story on this in the next issue just keep us some pages spare boys we ll give you the copy in time for the presses we must get big names in the industry to write well argued pieces against this proposal can you call it that when it s a de facto announcement and get them into the big magazines before too much damage is done it would be well worth folks archiving all the discussions from here since the day of the announcement to keep all the arguments at our fingertips i think between us we could write quite a good piece now who among us carries enough clout to guarantee publication phil don parker mitch kapor g
