From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Clipper and the Admin decision to adopt same is reported in a front page (above the fold) article in the Saturday New York Times.
Usual errors about how the "backdoor" would work and about how warrants would be required to get the keys.
All the usual suspects. Good placement though.
DCF
Unfortunately, though, it was pretty soft on Clipper. Significantly, the piece was not written by John Markoff, who's been covering cypherpunk- and crypto-related issues for the Times for a while now. Markoff has been very friendly to "our side." This other guy (sorry, name escapes me) seemed to swallow the USG's line much more uncritically. I wonder why Markoff didn't write Saturday's piece? I'm not subtly suggesting conspiracy theories here, though I'm certainly open-minded about them. Mainly, I'm noting the difference between the two guys' approaches and how strongly they affect the coverage. I did a mini- rant about the piece on my radio show Saturday. --Dave.