Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:41:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Carl Ellison wrote: ...
The last $9M (I believe it was) went to buying up AT&T DES phones to be made into Clipper phones. Of course, the conversion hasn't happened yet and the DES phones are sitting in a warehouse someplace -- but the $9M fund went to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nope. There is one right here in my office. And it makes me feel so safe and secure.
The $9M didn't buy *all* of the AT&T phones. TIS has 2 of them. Bruce Schneier has 1. Whit Diffie has one that I've seen. However, all the ones it did buy are apparently in a warehouse, gathering dust. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/home.html | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+