re screw the people crypto is for hard core hackers spooks jhart agora rain com jim hart writes you don t care that people are being lied to fooled into believing the chip gives privacy when it fact it allows wiretaps it does give privacy just not absolute privacy the announcement was very up front about this and about allowing wiretaps how is this fooling anyone 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 sure the two don t interoperate you couldn t talk to say a cylink phone from a clipper phone i would expect even multiprotocal phones to come with indicators saying which kind of link encryption is in use 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 so start a company and build them this is still mostly a capitalist economy 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 i agree go for it amanda walker intercon systems corporation
