re do we need the clipper for cheap security ebrandt jarthur claremont edu eli brandt writes instead we have a deliberately brain dead version of a cryptosystem that has not even been peer reviewed yes the nsa owns some smart people but if they pulled a feal well at t is going to be left with a lot of dud phones on its hands agreed remember i don t even think of clipper as encryption in any real sense if i did i d probably be a lot more annoyed about it heh heh the government already gave it up for us remember in the announcement they described this scheme as balancing the two extremes of having no privacy and claiming that citizens had a constitutional right to encryption that s not for clinton or anyone under him to say though only the federal and supreme courts can say anything about the constitutionality anything the administration or any governmental agency says is opinion at best amanda walker intercon systems corporation
