either: a. The government taps itself, corruption is uncovered, and the national debt decreases. Society agrees that public officials don't deserve privacy, but citizens do. or: b. The government bureaucrats, seeing hard times coming, reject Privacy Clipping for themselves, and so everybody -- gov and citizens -- retains their privacy. (This is judo: use their weight against them.)
S.O.P. would be c. The government mandates that citizens use only Approved Privacy Techniques, while government employees, "for national security reasons", can use whatever they want. The government has a long and lurid history of placing less restrictions upon itself than upon the rest of us. I can imagine general restrictions on crypto, but I can't picture the CIA using a known-broken system.
-a2.
Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu