re fighting the clipper initiative as a flaming libertarian paranoid extremist i at a loss for specific objections that don t sound frighteningly technical the idea that foisting the cripple chip standard on us manufacturers would result in saying sayonara to yet another high tech market isn t technical isn t in the least difficult to understand and plays on a concern lots of people are worried about already could you expand on this simple if you have a choice between american manufacturers peddling cripple chips with a secret untested algorithm whose keys are held by people with a history of untrustworthy behavoir or japanese to pick the obvious example manufacturers peddling encryption chips with an algorithm that has faced public scrutiny and keys under the control of the user which would you choose at most the american government can deny this choice to american citizens and probably not that if the glorious success of the war on drugs is any example it can t do much about the global market
