Re: Administration backs away from FBI on crypto, by A.Pressman (fwd)

17 Dec 2003


      At 05:06 PM 9/4/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
...
Clinton administration back away from FBI on encryption
   By Aaron Pressman
  WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuter) - The Clinton administration's top official
on encryption policy on Thursday backed away from a proposal by the head of
the FBI to regulate for the first time computer coding products in the
United States.
  "What he proposed was not the administration's policy," Commerce
Undersecretary William Reinsch told reporters during a break at a
congressional hearing.
Of course it isn't. Not yet. This is called playing "good cop, bad cop".


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