What do you think of the Clipper issue ?
The NSA wants to legislate that every computer manifactured in the
U.S. will have a chip built inside that will allow the Government
to decrypt the information. The worst thing is that people are not
informed of what is at stake here. Who would buy a computer with a
spy inside? The Clipper chip is an admission of incompetence.
They say they wanna be able to decrypt the information that would
jeopardize National Security. But to can prevent the Medellin cartel
to buy - say - into a Swiss corporation which comes up with a new
encryption system which totally cuts out the Clipper ?
Encryption programs are stronger and stronger. There is a new one
called Stego, which is free on Internet. It takes written material and
hides it in visual elements. I send a digitized e-postcard from
Cannes and there is half a novel hidden in its data. I've seen it work.
I haven't understood the half of it yet.
Man, the Clipper chip is fucked anyway. Most of the new edge guys
are into computers, and they're coming up with new gear nobody
had the slightest clue about five years ago. I saw recently a
prototype which looked like a beeper, but it was a virtual telephone.
Unfortunately, we have to deal with more paper than before.
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