[24347] in Cypherpunks
Re: (fwd) Newt says Clipper Chip is Dead
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Rochkind)
Mon Dec 19 21:38:52 1994
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 21:28:48 -0500
To: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald), cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jrochkin@cs.oberlin.edu (Jonathan Rochkind)
At 5:44 PM 12/19/94, James A. Donald wrote:
>On his weekly call-in TV show on National Empowerment Television tonight,
>Newt received a call asking about his opinion on the Clipper Chip, and he
>replied that it was a moot point, in that the Clipper chip concept was
>designed for a condition that no longer exists.
Eh? What condition is that? I don't understand.
What condition used to exist that required the deployment of the Clipper
Chip, that no longer exists?
What was he talking about?
