<In mail Richard Johnson said:>
This sort of reasoning is the long-delayed revenge of people who couldn't go to Woodstock because they had too much trig homework. It
Give this tired, ancient metaphor a break. [... the next paragraph starts:]
The problem with all this romanticism is that its most likely
Then he says we are overboard on the romanticism. Sheesh. [.. the public sector]
drafts along behind the government, adopting government standards on the assumption that if it's good enough for the government's information, it's good enough to protect industry's.
But Clipper NEVER claimed to be good enough for the government's info! As far as I know the description was that it was to be used for "sensitive but not classified info" and as such it's not good enough for the REAL secrets. The scary thing is that unless someone were informed by a group such as the c'punk list they would buy his babble fairly easily. Shoot, I combed it with such an awareness and it still ALMOST sounds convincing. It scares me when they can get on TV and tell the public "Clipper is good because..." and spout this or some similar argument and we on the other side of the issue can only tell our friends and a few computer types via news groups and mailing lists. In general that American public is gullible and would buy this drivel. Jim -- Tantalus Inc. Jim Sewell Amateur Radio: KD4CKQ P.O. Box 2310 Programmer Internet: jims@mpgn.com Key West, FL 33045 C-Unix-PC Compu$erve: 71061,1027 (305)293-8100 PGP via email on request. 1K-bit Fingerprint: 8E 14 68 90 37 87 EF B3 C4 CF CD 9A 3E F9 4A 73