re organized lobbying for cryptography jgfoot minerva cis yale edu josh a goldfoot writes tarl neustaedter tarl coyoacan sw stratus com wrote it means that the eff s public stance is complicated with issues irrelevant to the encryption issue per se there may well be people who care about the encryption issue who don t care to associate themselves with the network erotica issue or may even disagree with the eff s position perhaps these encryption only types would defend the digitized porn if it was posted encrypted these issues are not as seperable as you maintain well regardless of what policy liabilities anyone in washington may think eff has it is going ahead aggressively attacking the assumptions that are behind the administrations clipper chip initiative for all the reasons stated here in washington you have to work under the assumption that everyone has some liabilities government and non governmental organizations alike all share the same glass house eff is variously identified as the hacker defense fund the first amendment absolutists the new communists etc but it is also an acknowledged leader in the civil liberties arena and is respected as a serious player in the policy circles so unless there is another organization with the credibility and clout and right policy stance that you know of in washington please don t count eff out as a valid representative of your views in the clipper chip matter cliff figallo fig eff org eff online guy
