At 2:17 PM 5/23/96, John Young wrote:

5-23-96. WaJo:

"Chasing Criminals at Cyberspeed." .... Says Stanley Morris, director of FinCEN, "The only way we can adequately assist our federal law enforcement counterparts in following the trail of the multinational money launderer is through our linkages with multilateral arrangements such as ... [Clipper 3]."

Of course, this appears to be implying that _domestic_ data will be subject to Clipper 3 restrictions, else this statement is meaningless. So, will my stored-value cards that I "charge up" in California and carry in my wallet to Zurich be GAKked? If not, Morris's statement is meaningless. If so, domestic data is intended to be GAKked. (But we knew this, didn't we?) --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."