I have shied away from any "political" action against Clipper because I am unsure how a Canadian can help...
Non-U.S. citizens can lobby hard to get all phones containing key-escrow (aka wiretap) chips banned in your country. You have a very good argument: do y'all want Yankee spooks listening in on your phone calls? Make sure the following specifics are included in the legislation: * Try to get key escrow banned *in general*, instead of just from foreign countries. In smaller countries this will be easier since its doubtful small governments can set up a spook/chip-maker axis to rival the NSA/Mykotronx/VLSI axis in the U.S. In fact probably only the U.S., cooperating major European countries and Japan have such a capability. * Be careful with the wording of the legislation; be sure to specify *key-escrow* and not any other forms of cryptography. * If political feasible the legislation should specifically encourage private, commercial forms of cryptography. Jim Hart jhart@agora.rain.com