re once tapped your code is no good any more in article tcmayc m xv jex netcom com tcmay netcom com timothy c may writes but is it any worse than the current unsecure system it becomes much worse of course if the government then uses this clinton clipper to argue for restrictions on unapproved encryption this is the main concern of most of us i think the camel s nose in the tent etc not to pick on mr may in particular of course but isn t this kind of the domino theory when one little country falls its neighbor will surely follow and before you know it we re all mining salt in siberia for not turning in our captain crunch secret decoder rings surely the hypothesis relying on the least wild assumptions is to take this at face value our lads at the fort were asked to cook up something that s pretty secure with a key that can be escrowed neatly and they did the government plans to sell this thing for the reasons they state yes those evil guys in the fbi can probably with some effort abuse the system i got news for you if the evil guys in the fbi decide they want to persecute you they re gonna and you re gonna hate it fact is the fbi doesn t want to listen to your phone calls and if they do and if you re using triple des they ll just get a parabolic microphone and point it at your head this is pretty clearly an effort by the government to do exactly what they re saying they re doing as is typical with governments it s mismanaged and full of holes and compromises as is typical with our government it s not too bad could be worse my interpretation andrew tim may whose sig block may get him busted in the new regime isn t this just a little melodramatic
