re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption brad clarinet com brad templeton writes 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 then they ll probably also want to start tracking the customer lists of people purchasing soundblaster and similar boards which can be configured with the use of some code and a modem to act as a pretty decent digital encrypting telephone it s expensive though and kind of awkward i don t know any drug lords but i m sure they d favor something tappable over something secure as long as the user interface is nice when you ve got hrh prince of wales saying stupid things over cordless phones it s not hard to imagine that drug dealers child pornographers commies lisp programmers and other threats to the civilized world might transact incriminating business over encrypting cellular phones mjr
