Extract from EFFector Online Volume 6 No. 1 "... The briefers admitted that the proposed system is not really an escrow. The agencies holding the key components will not have any duties or responsibilities to the Clipper users. The escrows' obligation will be to the government, and they will be liable to Clipper users only under the Bivens doctrine, where any failure must be shown to be wilful. ..." If it isn't really an "escrow", why do we continue to use the term? If keys are, in effect, surrendered before the fact, why not call it the "key surrender system" when we write or speak about this miasma? Or any other term more nearly accurate than what it is not... Haven't seen a single post promoting tax evasion all day. How curious. --------------------------------------------------------------------- internet : xxclark@indst.indstate.edu Vanilla BITNET: XXCLARK@INDST We're all Bozos on this bus... ---------------------------------------------------------------------