re once tapped your code is no good any more in apr clarinet com brad clarinet com brad templeton writes it occurs to me that if they get a wiretap order on you and the escrow houses release your code to the cops your code is now no longer secure a very good point it s in the hands of cops and while i am sure most of the time they are good their security will not be as good as the escrow houses why should we expect the cops to be honest they re underpaid for the risks they face every day the media dumps on the all the time and blames them for all sorts of discrimination brutality how can we expect them to be more than human besides there are lots of cases of police abuses ranging from protection scams to outright robbery when i worked in d c there was a breakin at a local radio shack and the alarm company heard the cops responding to the call over the audio pickup in the store what this effectively means is that if they perform a wiretap on you at the end of the wiretap they should be obligated to inform you that a tap was performed and replace for free the clipper chip in your cellular phone so that it is once again a code known only to the escrow houses then you would know that big brother had been listening does he really want to let you know do the police normally reveal every tap they do even if no charges are laid in many ways it would be a positive step if they had to judges set time limits on warrants i assume at the end of the time limit they should have to renew or replace your chip that s if we go with this scheme which i am not sure i agree with i m completely against anything that makes it easier for the government to encroach on the rights of individuals the founders of this country spent a lot of effort limiting the power of the government and specifying exactly what the governments rights were and this didn t include a gov t spy in every bedroom imho there are entirely too many things going on today designed to preserve the government organism at the expense of individuals look around and reread and many early heinlein books aren t there many parallels between the thought police can you spell waco texas and heinlein s crazy years bill internet bill celestial com bill campbell celestial software uucp thebes camco bill east mercer way uunet camco bill mercer island wa speed costs money how fast do you want to go
