Clipper in LA Times --Front Page

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Posted-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1993 10:17:47 PDT
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1993 10:17:47 PDT
From: Jim Opfer (via RadioMail) <opfer () radiomail net>
Subject: Clipper in LA Times --Front Page
To: farber () central cis upenn edu


Dave


Today's (sunday's) LA Times has an article called "Demanding the Ability to
Snoop" on the front page and on entire page 31, complete with drawings of
how a call will be intercepted.


They state in the article that the government will require any company that
joins the NII to use CLipper/Skipjack.


Jim 


[ and from a respected old hand in this game .. djf ]




"Dave:


This may not be useful for your list because I have only a pointer,
not the article.  In Sunday's [today's] LA Times Robert Lee Hotz, the
science writer, has a long article on Skipjack/Clipper/escrowed key
technology/et al.  It's nearly a full column on the front page plus a
full inside page.  There is a second section of the article coming
tomorrow.


It is very well done, very complete, factually correct so far as I
noticed, etc.  It contains a graphic of how escrowing access is to
work, a graphic on the number of wiretaps and pen registers used over
the last 10 years or so.  It's an objective informative treatment
without taking a position.


Unless someone needs a once-over full treatment of the issue, there is
probably little point in posting to your list.  It may get picked up
by other papers since I assume some of this stuff gets on the news
wire.  The most important observation is that the issue is being
covered in major news media."