clipper business as usual notwithstanding all the legitimate fuss about this proposal how much of a change is it att s last product in this area a was priced over as i suspect clipper phones will be b came to the customer with the key automatically preregistered with government authorities thus aside from attempting to further legitimize and solidify the fed s posture clipper seems to be more of the same rather than a new direction yes technology will eventually drive the cost down and thereby promote more widespread use but at present the man on the street is not going to purchase a crypto telephone especially when the guy on the other end probably doesn t have one anyway am i missing something the real question is what the gov will do in a year or two when air tight voice privacy on a phone line is as close as your nearest pc that has got to a problematic scenario for them even if the extent of usage never surpasses the underground stature of pgp ray berry kb ht ray ole cdac com rjberry eskimo com compuserve com
