Computerworld article -- gov't lies re Clipper

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Note the paragraph:

   It should also be understood that the use of products
   implementing the key escrow encryption microcircuit is
   voluntary. There has been no attempt to either mandate its use
   or to deny the entry of other encryption technologies into the
   marketplace.

Didn't the government influence AT&T to drop its "3600" line of
DES-based telephone encryption devices, in favor of Clipper-based
devices?  That sounds like an attempt to deny entry of other
encryption technologies into the marketplace.  In fact, the story is
that AT&T's mass marketing of these phones is what pushed the Clipper
schedule and caused them to announce it when it wasn't quite ready.

        John

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