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."