UK users about to get clippered
jim bell
jimbell at pacifier.com
Mon Jun 17 19:21:52 PDT 1996
At 12:03 PM 6/17/96 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>If you live the UK, brace yourself for HMG's "Clipper" annoucement
>later this week. Look particularly carefully at the escrow agencies.
>- Remailereuters
And it should go over even less well than American Clipper. When that was
proposed, in April of 1993, there was no standard encryption chip nor the
immediate prospect of one. Someone might, at least arguably, have been
attracted to Clipper with the argument that it's better than no encryption
at all. However, now that the NTT chip has been revealed, nobody is going
to be under the illusion that it's "Clipper or nothing."
Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com
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