According to a White House statement announcing the encryption policy, "We need the Clipper chip and other approaches that can both provide law-abiding citizens the access they need and prevent criminals from using it to hide their illegal activities." Wait, Is this the NEW policy? The one that admits problems with Clipper, or the old one? It's scary that I even have to ASK this question. If it is new, what's the bloody difference? "...and other approaches...." Smells like a tuna processing plant in here. -> that can both provide law-abiding citizens the access they need and prevent criminals from using it to hide their illegal activities. <- Please. Back to the old security v. privacy debate. Get a clue Clinton What's new here? -> Clipper "was forced upon [the Clinton administration] before they had the chance to evaluate its impact," Bruce Heiman, a Washington attorney representing the Business Software Alliance, said last Tuesday. "NSA sold them a bill of goods." <- Isn't Mr. Heiman being a touch kind here? It was all NSA's fault? That doesn't sound like someone with the true interests of the "Business Software Alliance" at heart. Please forgive me if you're here Mr. Heiman. I'd like to know if this quote was properly within context (or did the media distort it?) -> Depsite the administration's insistence that Clipper and the rest of the encryption policy are voluntary efforts, many U.S. high-tech companies have opposed it.... <- Notice how it's never said WHY it was opposed. Just kinda hinted... The appearence of flexability here is an ILLUSION. It's rhetoric. Trash. They haven't changed the policy, just worked it around a little to make it look like they are worried about concerns of industry... Please. This smokescreen trash makes me sick. Clipper, or a similar proposal will show up in basically the same form called "Splitdeck" or "Skimmer" It's not the chip we object to you IDIOT. It's the policy and all the baggage attached to the bullshit goal of balancing "Private interests and law enforcement requirements." These are almost ALWAYS two opposed concepts. Take a basic class on intelligence Clinton and friends. Security | Liberty polar opposites. -uni- Dark