cc: FBI

And anyone who didn't include a surveillance agency in the list of message recipients would of course be demonstrating that they were up to no good and should be investigated. How diabolically clever.

Next let's "voluntarily" switch to postcards for all snail mail. :)

You're catching on! :-) Actually -- the important thing to do is get the gov't to stop trying to get suppliers to voluntarily insert spying taps and let the individual citizens provide their own spying taps. Think of it as a form of voting. Meanwhile, changing the Clipper proposal to mine should help focus the public debate. I definitely think NIST should change to my proposal! - Carl