Administration backs away from FBI on crypto, by A.Pressman (fwd)
Lucky Green
shamrock at netcom.com
Thu Sep 4 21:27:47 PDT 1997
At 05:06 PM 9/4/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Clinton administration back away from FBI on encryption
> By Aaron Pressman
> WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuter) - The Clinton administration's top official
>on encryption policy on Thursday backed away from a proposal by the head of
> the FBI to regulate for the first time computer coding products in the
>United States.
> "What he proposed was not the administration's policy," Commerce
>Undersecretary William Reinsch told reporters during a break at a
>congressional hearing.
Of course it isn't. Not yet. This is called playing "good cop, bad cop".
--Lucky Green <shamrock at netcom.com>
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