[86907] in Cypherpunks
Re: Rep. Loretta Sanchez Hits Crypto Controls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Mon Sep 22 00:58:56 1997
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970921022246.00895f40@pop.pipeline.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:59:54 -0400
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
At 22:22 -0400 9/20/97, John Young wrote:
>Budget Officefor implementing SAFE. However, as far as
>I can tell, the estimate does not include the cost of a GAK
>system, and covers only the cost of export controls. Thus,
>it appears to be vastly misleading.
Those were the earlier estimates, based on legislation that did not include
mandatory GAK. I wrote about the latest CBO estimate, based on mandatory
GAK, in this week's Time Magazine.
-Declan
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Declan McCullagh
Washington Correspondent, The Netly News Network, http://netlynews.com/
Reporter, Time Magazine, http://time.com/
