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Re: Deloitte-Touche?
Marshall Clow <[email protected]> writes:
> Several people wrote:
> >I wrote:
> >>ObCrypto policy:
> >> Was anyone else besides me amazed by the guy
> >>from Deloitte-Touche at the Internet Privacy Coalition luncheon
> >>last week? I mean, he all but advocated violent overthrow of
> >>the government. [...]
> >
> >For the benefit of those of us who were not at this luncheon (probably
> >not even in the same country), could you please say more about this,
> >Marshall? What was the subject? What _did_ the DT speaker say, exactly?
> >
> After a while, I stopped taking notes, because I was so astounded at
> what he was saying.
> (Maybe someone with more complete notes could post a better summary)
>
> But, here a brief overview of the luncheon:
>
> Last Wednesday, January 29th, the Internet Privacy Coalition had
> a "policy lunch" in San Francisco. It was in one of the hotels hosting
> the RSA conference, and at the same time that the conference was
> breaking for lunch, so it was easy for attendees to "switch lunches".
>
> The speakers (as I remember, apologies to any I miss) were:
> Whit Diffie
> John Gilmore
> Kenneth Bass (counsel in Karn vs. Dept of State)
> Herb Lin (who ran the NRC staff for the crypto study)
> Marc Rotenberg
> William Hugh Murray (Deloitte & Touche)
> and a couple others that I missed, as I left early.
>
> Mr. Murray gave a long, impassioned speech.
>
> He said that the government is going to crack down on
> domestic possession and use of crypto, that they
> were looking to increase their wiretapping capabilities
> 100-fold, and so on.
>
> He was very emphatic about not trusting anything
> that the government says, and that once they got
> their "foot in the door", that they would seek to
> expand their abilities to regulate, etc, etc.
>
> He advocated deployment of strong crypto. He
> insisted that there was no way the government
> could stop the export of strong crypto. He exhorted
> people to refuse to obey the ITAR/EAR regulations,
> and to lobby their congresscritters to get the
> PRO-CODE bill passed.
>
>
> It wasn't really what he said that amazed me, because
> I had heard most of it (in bits and pieces) before. It
> was presenting it all in a package, in an emotional
> manner, by an elderly, conseratively dressed
> accountant who was representing a large
> corporation whose job it is to help people obey the
> government.
>
> [ My father was an accountant. He worked for
> Deloitte-Touche, in fact. I don't expect accountants
> to be passionate about government regs, and
> especially not to advocate disobediance. Maybe
> that's why this affected me so strongly. ]
>
> -- Marshall
>
> Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:[email protected]>
>
> Warning: Objects in calendar are closer than they appear.
>
>
I think Bill Murray might take offense at being called an accountant.
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