Re: TIS--Building in Big Brother for a Better Tommorrow

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

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At 04:41 PM 2/26/96 -0800, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
>On 22 Feb 96, John Young wrote and quoted Steve Walker:
>> To supplement TIS's Web site information on CKE, here's a
>> mailing from Steve Walker earlier this month:

>> TRUSTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC.
> February 2, 1996
>> There has been amazing progress on TIS's Commercial Key
>> Escrow (CKE) initiative since my last status report.
>

[Much quite-valid disgust with CKE (GAK!) deleted]

>> ...it represents the first export approval of a DES-based key
>> escrow encryption system, a small step...
>
>...backward.
>
>> ...the private sector's need for encryption protection and
>> governments' needs to be able to decrypt the communications
>> of criminals, terrorists, and other adversaries...
>
>There is no difference between the justification for this and 
>what was offered to justify Clipper.  
>
>"Other adversaries," like those who want to keep their affairs 
>private, or wish to live free in an increasingly unfree world? 
>I think I'm gonna puke.


Instead of "and other adversaries," why didn't they just come out and say, 
"and Jim Bell"?  I feel left out!  Ignored!   Now I know how "the 
Professor and Mary Ann" felt.

This is a social slight I can't possibly tolerate!

Jim Bell, Adversary.

jimbell@pacifier.com

Klaatu Burada Nikto

Something is going to happen...   Something...Wonderful!
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