Our chances

[technopagan priest <tedwards@wam.umd.edu>]

About NSA assistant director Dr. Clint Brooks:

>He readily admitted that the Clipper system isn't intended to catch
>any crooks. They'll just avoid the phones. It is just going to deny
>them access to the telecommunications system. They just won't be able
>to go into Radio Shack and buy a secure phone that comes off the line.

This is why it is _imperative_ that Cypherpunks develop secure
voice communication systems, to kill Clipper market share.

>Their message was direct and they didn't hesitate to compare encryption
>with assault rifles. 

Of course, the assault weapon issue is, for the most part, a bogus
attempt to grab rifles.  Semi-auto long weapons do not actually
show up in the crime stream with any regularity, there are millions
of legally owned rifles that are never used in crime, and anti-gun
groups are using people's inexperience with semi-auto weapons and
crime statistics to achieve their ends.

-Thomas