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Clipper in LA Times --Front Page
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 16:08:17 -0400
Posted-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1993 10:17:47 PDT Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1993 10:17:47 PDT From: Jim Opfer (via RadioMail) <opfer () radiomail net> Subject: Clipper in LA Times --Front Page To: farber () central cis upenn edu Dave Today's (sunday's) LA Times has an article called "Demanding the Ability to Snoop" on the front page and on entire page 31, complete with drawings of how a call will be intercepted. They state in the article that the government will require any company that joins the NII to use CLipper/Skipjack. Jim [ and from a respected old hand in this game .. djf ] "Dave: This may not be useful for your list because I have only a pointer, not the article. In Sunday's [today's] LA Times Robert Lee Hotz, the science writer, has a long article on Skipjack/Clipper/escrowed key technology/et al. It's nearly a full column on the front page plus a full inside page. There is a second section of the article coming tomorrow. It is very well done, very complete, factually correct so far as I noticed, etc. It contains a graphic of how escrowing access is to work, a graphic on the number of wiretaps and pen registers used over the last 10 years or so. It's an objective informative treatment without taking a position. Unless someone needs a once-over full treatment of the issue, there is probably little point in posting to your list. It may get picked up by other papers since I assume some of this stuff gets on the news wire. The most important observation is that the issue is being covered in major news media."
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