-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Kragen Sittler writes:
Clipper is flopping and will continue to flop. DT, in whatever form, will never be useful; the government simply does not have the resources to closely watch the phone network.
The fact that DT allows real-time monitoring of conversations is secondary; the interesting effect is that it creates (to steal from .. Burroughs?) "the policeman inside", who *does* watch us at every moment. Surveillance can cause the subject to become his/her own watcher, an autonomous unit of self-suppression. This is the real danger of Clipper and DT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.5 iQCVAgUBLiwniH3YhjZY3fMNAQFZrgP8CDQDfwteIUkPGEbvUNvBbDQ+N11IFHrC UbOrLnTDGGYRuyrfrE66k7uKC/E3Pnr8ByfeioQSl98XVtNxBqGYrvRs/MoqZtoC V6K6LiDcmZ6TAsTXXsnuNvjdSBJVONH0yPIhiQrsLPK9XvlwyTmVmHtat4htu/Sf nMnHeYUVz3k= =fxC5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----