Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:26:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com> To: business@sjmercury.com, computing@sjmercury.com, state@sjmercury.com Subject: Why no coverage of CA resolution on Encryption? Cc: hua@chromatic.com Why was there no coverage of CA State resolution SJR-29? I find it using the search facility at: http://www.sen.ca.gov/www/leginfo/SearchText.html And the result is at: http://www.sen.ca.gov/htbin/ca-billpage/SJR/29/gopher_root2:[bill.current.sjr.from0000.sjr0029] The on-line magazine has a full article by Will Rodger on this: http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/970908b.html Apparently there was some attempt by the Clinton Administration to cover up their lobbying effort. I don't understand why the Administration would care about a California state RESOLUTION of all things. Why does the Clinton Administration want to prevent a state legislature from speaking its mind? And what's with this attempt to claim "copyright" on that fax? Please get some answers on this! The US Senate/House will be voting on important encryption legislation in the coming days. The people of this country deserves to have a open, informed, serious discussion of one of the most important privacy issues of the information age. We cannot afford to let a few intelligence and law enforcement agencies dictate policy TO us against our will. Ern