some thoughts on clipper proposal i envision incorporation of new standart into various communication systems thus making it prevalent on the market therefore cheap the way to do that may be detaching crypto chip from communication equipment it seems logical to provide clipper chip to the end user not as a part of phone fax modem like but in the form of smart card compatible with various telecomm products banks will encourage extensive use of new cards to make transactions by phone natural step will be to cross reference this card to the person in the government databases or else this new version of wiretap proposal make no sence at all one wish to eavesdrop spell on the particular person not on the particular modem or phone as a side note i disagree with one poster who said he won t care about ability of the government to eavesdrop since they can do that now anyway clipper will take away electronic survelliance from citizens making it monopoly of the government may be we can find examples when interceptions made by unauthorised people uncovered crimes of state officials for pgp public key finger mkagalen lynx dac northeastern edu
