Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 2-Jun-94 NYT article by Ezekial Palmer@anon.pene
``Anyone interested in circumventing law-enforcement access would most likely choose simpler alternatives,'' Michael A. Smith, the agency's director of policy, said in a written statement in response to a reporter's questions. ``More difficult and time-consuming efforts, like those discussed in the Blaze paper are very unlikely to be employed.''
Right, until the clipperphone conversion units come out. It's too hard for the average drug dealer/terrorist to do, just like making a cellphone that generates a random ID number every time you pick it up. :-7 The street finds its own use for things Jer darklord@cmu.edu | "it's not a matter of rights / it's just a matter of war finger me for my | don't have a reason to fight / they never had one before" Geek Code and | -Ministry, "Hero" PGP public key | http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr25/jbde/