screw the people crypto is for hard core hackers spooks only since the at t wiretap chip is scheduled to be 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 thus distribution world 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 why do we hackers care about the clipper chip do we give a shit about anybody s privacy accept our own and perhaps not even our own are we so smart that we always know when we re talking to somebody who has a wiretap on their phone i find the call thru your computer ideas may reflect this attitude ideas that are of by and for hackers and don t help anybody in the real world aren t going to do anybody much good including ourselves where voice phones are concerned 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 silicon compile it 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
