From: Parveez Syed Global Media Monitoring Shanti Communications One Stuart Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8RA1 UK Tel: London-UK 44-0831-196693 Fax: 44-0181-665 0384 E-Mail INTERNET: PARVEEZ@CR78RA1UK.WIN-UK.NET Building big brothers book reviewed by Parveez Syed (c) Shanti RTV Building in Big Brother: The Cryptographic Policy Debate Edited by Lance J. Hoffman Springer Verlag Publishers Copyright: March 1995 Price:$29.95 ISBN 0-387-94441-9 "If you ever wondered how a particular computer technology could attract the interest of the directors of three intelligence agencies, the heavyweights in the computer industry, a gang of programmers turned freedom fighters, and the President of the United States, you need look no farther than Building in Big Brother. This book outlines the next civil liberties battle in the United States," according to Marc Rotenberg of Electronic Privacy Information Center. "One-stop-shopping for even the most sophisticated analyst of the policy wars over cryptography," according to Michael Froomkin, Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School "Lance Hoffman has compiled an extraordinarily useful and well balanced collection of materials on cryptography and its applications. This book will instantly become a definitive compendium," Peter Neumann said. "Though Lance Hoffman is a dedicated opponent of current government policy, he has assembled a volume that should be -- and will be -- on the desk of every cryptographic policymaker in Washington. He has accurately recorded the many voices in a debate that will profoundly affect our future, for good or ill, well into the twenty-first century. This book is an important contribution to the history of encryption. It is an even more important contribution to those who are struggling to shape that history," Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson (formerly General Counsel to the National Security Agency) added. "An authoritative source of political writings by the major players in the crypto revolution," according to Philip Zimmermann, Creator of PGP. ends Presented by: Shanti RTV (c) 23 Feb 1996. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Parveez Syed's direct contact details are: One Stuart Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8RA1 UK Tel: London-UK 44-0831-196693; Fax/tel: 44-0181-665 0384 E-Mail INTERNET: parveez@cr78ra1uk.win-uk.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- Food for thought?: "In politics, as in the snake oil business, it pays to have a short memory and a chameleon-like quality. That is why the relationship between a journalist and a politician should be like the one between a dog and a lamp-post". But who is doing what to whom? One wonders ;-) -----------------------------------------------------------------