re clipper scope was overreacting pat rwing uucp pat myrto writes the problem is the people are not having the scope or implicataions pointed out to them hell most haven t even heard of clipper and when they do it will be in soothing language telling everyone how nice the government is at letting them have privacy much more deleted the people at large need to be informed but how i am but one person i try to talk to everyone that will listen but i can hardly make any kind of dent here is how lets write a document which includes all the reasons we oppose clipper in clear concise non techincal manner i urge everyone of you to take the very simple start below and repost it with changes let the text evolve until we reach something most of us like then all of you should send a copy with a personnel letter to your congress critter local reporter on sci tech etc please to make this a success try to post only an agreed version not flames to respond to a flame to this please change the subject to e g clipper scope discussion michael golan mg cs princeton edu all of these are points which should be made into paragraphs what is wrong with the clipper chip by usenet users it is secret how can we trust the escrow agencies it is not cost effective we want other encryption systems the government seems to want to disallow it in the future anyone can build a non key system we are worried about a back door once everyone uses a clipper chip the mechanism for a big brother government is in place a change of government can lead to it especially since the escrow agencies operation is not governed by law so the president can change the rules to allow free access to the keys at any time e g during war few criminals are caught by wiretaps the cost and risks are unjustified once the fbi get hold of a key it can decrypt past and future conversations
