New CALEA Backdoors annouced

["Stout, Bill" <StoutB () pios com>]

Ascend, Bay Networks, Cisco Systems, 3Com, Hewlett-Packard, Intel,
Microsoft, Netscape Communications, Network Associates, Novell, RedCreek
Communications, Secure Computing, Sun Microsystems agreed to support a
sysadmin crypto backdoor for CALEA.

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/article/0,2334,14025,00.html
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/july98/3.html
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980714.wnencryption.htm

Only a year ago did security people scoff at the existence of
intentional 'backdoors'.  For some psychological reason publicly
announced backdoors in domestic products are more believable than
covertly planted backdoors in foreign products.

Bill Stout