IP: What pays better than lobbying for the Clipper Chip?

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
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The Netly News
March 24, 1998


         What pays better than lobbying for the government's FBI-friendly
   Clipper Chip and key escrow? Switching sides.  Next month Andrew
   Fois, 39, a top Justice Department official, will become a
   partner at the cyber-savvy Venable, Baetjer, Howard &
   Civiletti law firm. Fois told The Netly News he hopes to continue
   lobbying Congress on crypto -- this time, on behalf of industry. "I'd
   really look forward to an opportunity to help broker a solution," he
   says somewhat disingenuously, "between industry, the Hill and the
   government." As the assistant attorney general for legislative
   affairs, Fois earns $114,800 a year -- and is on track to make two to
   three times that in his new job. A useful coincidence: His wife, Sonia
   Fois, is a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm organizing
   Americans for Computer Privacy


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