screw the people crypto is for hard core hackers spooks only since the wiretap chip is being distributed internationally allowing the u s government to spy on foreign governments companies and people as as well as to wiretap domestic citizens this is a world wide issue please put distribution world on the distrubution line thank you ygoland wright seas ucla edu the jester writes however assuming that i can still encrypt things as i please who cares about the clipper chip you don t care that people are being lied to fooled into believing the chip gives privacy when it fact it allows wiretaps you don t give a shit about anybody s privacy except your own and not even your own are you so smart that you know when you re talking to somebody who has a wiretap chip on their phone instead of a privacy chip with private keys attitude that everyone else should have instead of worrying about a clipper chip simply connect your handset to your computer and feed the voice single through process encrypt and transmit over the phone the guy on the other hand then does the same in reverse simply everyone should have this attitude the only people who can have this attitude are the most hard core computer hackers who never make phone calls away from their computer who apparently never call anybody except another computer hacker or perhaps another spook u s classified agents refuse to use their own system only oblivious civilian dupes get that dubious privilege only spooks and hard core hackers need privacy huh we do need an alternative to nsa bugged telephones but we re talking inexpensive telephones here including hand sized cellulars that need strong crypto real privacy make shift computer hacker rigs that require living by your computer to talk privately over the phone are just a dumb stunt that doesn t do anything for anybody s privacy in the real world what we need is a true privacy chip for example a real time voice encryption rsa put it into a silicon compiler and spit out asic put this chip on the market as a de facto standard for international business diplomats and private communications if the u s bans it we make it somewhere else and import it the japanese german dutch taiwanese korean etc electronics companies don t want the nsa spying on them u s workers lose more jobs to government fascist stupidity jhart agora rain com
