re text of white house announcement and q as on clipper chip encryption in article qmugcinnpu gap caltech edu hal cco caltech edu hal finney writes the key question is whether non clipper encryption will be made illegal it seems pretty obvious that it will be made illegal if very loud noise is not made about this immediately to congress and the house it looks like the worst nightmares raised by dorothy denning s proposals are coming true if the government continues on this course i imagine that we will see strong cryptography made illegal encryption programs for disk files and email as well as software to allow for encrypted voice communications will be distributed only through the underground people will have to learn how to hide the fact that they are protecting their privacy i don t know what s worse the waste of money or the fact that in spite of all clinton s rhetoric to the contrary this is a feeble attempt by a large group of bored intelligence bureaucrats to justify their currently useless jobs clinton said he was going to trim the fat from the government this doesn t look very dietetic to me as i said before in this group drug dealing and terrorism both tend to be international crimes which are not going to cease if the us starts to regulate encryption the drug dealers and terrorists will simply go to other countries to communicate their plans and will still carry them out here and or wherever else this is not the solution to the problem they try to invent a new problem by saying we need encryption i guess it s a good thing bill gates isn t a star general or we would all need our own copies of ms dos too right und vee haff vays uff findink out iff you are usink doctor dos it s shocking and frightening to see that this is actually happening here our health care and education systems are in the toilet and they come up with this pearl if this goddamned government doesn t get a clue real quick and start trying to repair the infrastructure of the country rather than inventing someone to blame germany and japan are going to eat the us alive and we will deserve it it s not like there s any shortage of real problems to solve guys a clipper chip is really going to help the homeless a clipper chip is really going to help educate the children in the ghettos of our cities just think of the generation gap that can be developed when they rehire dod engineer dad to work on clipper chips that will be used to decrypt slightly rebellious adolescent hacker son s naughty gif files i can see the shitcom already if that wasn t a forged post or a sick joke i m popping that dead kennedys tape into the car stereo and tearing ass to canada clinton on white horse is near it s the suede denim secret police they have come for your uncool niece don t worry it s only a phone shit i knew i should have gotten some of those consent to monitoring stickers they keep on autovon phones when i had the chance i should have known i d need them in civilian life redsonja olias linet org rs self possession is of the law alien we control the laws of nature how come when it s human it s an joel and you still dress that way abortion but when it s a chicken mst k gamera vs guiron it s an omelet george carlin
