re political point of attack clipper infrastructure in article apr news clarkson edu tuinstra signal ece clarkson edu soe writes from these figures estimate the number of clipper tap requests the fbi is expecting publish this figure compare it on a per capita basis with the amount of tapping now known or suspected the attorney general publishes the number of court ordered taps each year it isn t enough around a thousand for the average non crook non spy to worry about in fact considering any reasonable guess about the number of big time crooks and spies around it may not be enough even for most crooks and spies to worry about there s no reason to believe that it will go up with clipper since the number of taps now includes many targets too stupid to use encryption based on the playbacks we ve heard in court cases david david sternlight great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of our information errors and omissions excepted
