Re: Freeh slimes again: Digital Telephony costs $2 billion now ...

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 10:58 PM 8/1/96, Ernest Hua wrote:
>Louis Freeh is now asking the Congress for $2 billion to fund
>Digital Telephony.  Yes, that is FOUR TIMES what he said it
>would cost the taxpayers to give up their own privacy.  Score
>one for the cynics who said $500 million was not enough.

And when this $2 B is defeated by encryption, look for dramatic, drastic,
and draconian restrictions on crypto.

(With the Internet Phone deals--even Intel is entering the market--why are
there no widespread uses of PGP or S/MIME? Yes, I know about about PGPhone,
and also the Nautilus product, but none seem to be used by anyone I know.
Maybe we should spend some time talking about the practical realities of
these tools.)

--Tim May


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