re clipper considered harmful in article r us oeh agate berkeley edu shirriff sprite berkeley edu ken shirriff writes in article optilink com brad optilink com brad yearwood writes finally because there is essentially no possibility of intercepting in realtime the scrutable content of communications between stolen instruments there will exist strong motivation to record and archive all communications in the network for ex post facto scrutiny once some criminal act is discovered and the instruments involved have been identified all is a very big number the at t long distance network has around t trunks mbit sec which is on the order of bits sec that doesn t even count the amount of traffic in the local phone companies or our long distance competitors it s about exabytes tapes second which is pretty large even for the nsa on the other hand i can easily see them recording the traffic for interesting people such as dissidents suspected criminals foreign telephone calls and anybody noticed using encryption as ken shiriff speculates recording encrypted traffic will probably be judged not to be an invasion of privacy pretty soon pray for peace bill bill stewart wcs anchor att com at t bell labs m holmdel nj no i m from new jersey i only work in cyberspace white house commect line fax
