Re: Clipper spin [was Re:Flood Warning]
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High-Tech Leaders Join Forces to Enable International Strong Encryption
The "International Strong Encryption" phrase is something that we need to become active in stopping. Anything which responds to such announcements should put a different spin on this phrase. If the Clipper farce is accepted as "strong" encryption then the battle is lost; maybe something like "it is _international_ strong encryption because it is the strongest encryption people like Saddam Hussein [insert bogeyman du jour] want Americans to have access to"
jim
Back when IBM/Lotus came out with it's "International" version, I proposed the term 'espionage-enabled software'. I still like it. Peter Trei trei@process.com
Peter Trei <trei@process.com> writes:
Back when IBM/Lotus came out with it's "International" version, I proposed the term 'espionage-enabled software'. I still like it.
But it doesn't have a catchy acronym like "Government Access to Keys". "Espionage-Enabled Keys", maybe? ;-) -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering consulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, MA wireless * DSP-based instrumentation * ATE tel +1 508 947-8049 * fax +1 508 947-9118 * http://www.coelacanth.com/
Roger Williams wrote: | >>>>> Peter Trei <trei@process.com> writes: | | > Back when IBM/Lotus came out with it's "International" version, I | > proposed the term 'espionage-enabled software'. I still like it. | | But it doesn't have a catchy acronym like "Government Access to Keys". | | "Espionage-Enabled Keys", maybe? ;-) "COINTERPRO Enabled. For our counter-terrorism experts." That's COunter INternational TERrorism PROgram. Any relation to actual government programs, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Coming soon, CODINEPRO, for our drug czars (does anyone else find the idea of an American Tzar soothing? I know I do). Adam -- "Every year the Republicans campaign like Libertarians, and then go to Wasthington and spend like Democrats." Vote Harry Browne for President. http://www.harrybrowne96.org
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