re secret algorithm re clipper chip and crypto key escrow in article strnlghtc pucl kp netcom com strnlght netcom com david sternlight writes in article apr yuma acns colostate edu holland cs colostate edu douglas craig holland writes let me ask you this would you trust richard nixon with your crypto keys i wouldn t i take it you mean president nixon not private citizen nixon sure nothing i m doing would be of the slightest interest to president nixon are you sure you aren t being watched let me remind you that watergate was only the tip of the iceberg nixon extensively used the nsa to watch people because he didn t like them according to decrypting the puzzle palace presumably the nsa is restricted from conducting american surveillance by both the foreign intelligence surveillance act of fisa and a series of presidential directives beginning with one issued by president ford following richard nixon s bold misuse of the nsa in which he explicitly directed the nsa to conduct widespread domestic surveillance of political dissidents and drug users of course just because there are laws saying the gov t is not supposed to conduct illegal surveillance doesn t mean those laws can t be broken when they are in the way doug holland
