re estimating wiretap costs benefits rlglende netcom com robert lewis glendenning writes in article apr kronos arc nasa gov hanson kronos arc nasa gov robin hanson writes i m attempting to write a serious policy paper examining whether the proposed wiretap or clipper chip is a cost effective tool for police investigation that is ignoring concerns about government intrusions into individual privacy is the value of easy wiretaps to investigators greater than the cost to the communications industry and their customers to support this wiretap technology first what the fuck is nasa doing wasting my tax dollars doing policy papers on stuff far outside of their purvew mission do us a favor resign rather than right this paper for nasa go do useful work for the society whew take it easy on the guy maybe he s going to do this in his spare time maybe he s going to do this to see how much a wiretap really costs maybe he s going to do this so he can add to the opposition to clipper i don t know fully why he might do this but maybe we shouldn t start flaming at the drop of a hat james holthaus james holthaus uiowa edu government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us leo tolstoy pgp public key available on request or from key server
