re wiretapping reality today strnlght netcom com david sternlight writes some of the messages here seem to reflect the view that the government is listening in on everything and one will have to hide one s clipper messages somehow if non escrowed crypto goes away a little perspective might be in order right people here believe the government is listening in on everything sure if you can t provide an answer change the assumptions to something you can deal with it s not a matter of the government listening on on everything it s a matter of the government listening on anyone they take an interest in say if you do something heinous like attend a computer meeting at a mall the secret service decides to go for a warrantless search and acquires your name it s a matter of any number of possible wiretap abuses that cryptology makes far less likely and this chip can sabotage par for the course though i predicted that you d be jumping in in favor of this the reply was that you d justify anything up to and including death camps as long as the government backed them and had a written policy statement perhaps a little extreme but not much seattle is an indian word meaning degrees and raining
