"Nothing other than some kind of mandatory key recovery really does the job," the California Democrat said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee's technology, terrorism, and government information subcommittee. This comment may, in fact, be a powerful weapon against ANY control. In fact, Feinstein is believing that no half-assed policy (including the current policy and Kerrey's bill) will really help law enforcement much. I can imagine why Freeh would not just jump at that conclusion full-force. He is not that stupid. If he were to hold onto that conclusion too tightly, then there is little justification for any law "encouraging" the proliferation of key-recovery products, as that would be worthless in terms of providing relief to law enforcement. Basically, Feinstein is providing further support for the long-standing argument that unless you plug every leak (a.k.a. no KR/GAK product), criminals will find the loop-hole and work around government surveillence. Ern