re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption andrew richard conway arc leland stanford edu wrote p s i can t work out why the us government doesn t want to sell them overseas after all they are rather easy for us interests to decode so make a perfect tool for industrial military espionage lulling anyone stupid enough to buy it into a false sense of security you will notice that there is no mention anywhere about safety for non americans don t forget you are in the country that wouldn t let the russians buy apple ii s because of security concerns ben bena bruce cs monash edu au
