re clipper considered harmful in article wcs apr rainier att com wcs anchor ho att com bill stewart writes 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 as i read the current wiretap law it would not be legal now on the other hand assuming a legislative change recording but not decrypting clipper conversations would probably be found constitutional by the supreme court using the same reasoning or the lack thereof by which they permit random roadblocks to check for drunk drivers incidentally if we use that as our model the court will likely not uphold selective recording on the other hand i don t think they ve thrown out drug courier profiles yet must be that exception to the fourth amendment that i can never find in my copy of the bill of rights a lot and i mean a lot will depend on exactly how clippertaps or tipperclaps for encrypted music are used don alvarez showed in the latest risks digest that it s possible to prevent the cops from reading traffic after their warrant expires that is the cops send the lef to the f holder the f holder strips off f and sends u k n to the escrow agents they send either u or k to the cops don says u i say k the cops can t use u in the future because they can t strip off f the f holder never sees u in don s model the escrow agents can t read the traffic because they don t have k in my model they have k but not the message itself and i trust that more because i think the cops and the fbi the f holder are more likely to collaborate on breaking the rules the net result is that by involving the f holder and the escrow agents on every tap we can avoid extending permission to tap
