[note, I have rerouted this thread from coderpunks to cypherpunks where it is more appropriate...] Adam Shostack writes:

Posting hacks like this, while fun, tells the bad guys (in Washington) how we're going to bypass their next bits of nonsense. A number of cute hacks posted to cypherpunks after Clipper II were defended against in Clipper III. So don't post your cute hacks against systems until they're ok'd by the government or deployed.

Part of the reason past Clipper schemes haven't been deployed is because they had been shown not to work! I say if there are weak spots, keep punching holes in them. While Washington is spinning around trying to come up with a new-and-improved version, keep deploying good strong crypto and working the free-speech/civil-liberties angle in the courts. By the GAKers come up with a workable solution (which is probably impossible given the politics involved in global-GAK) it will be too late. andrew