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[ISN] Slip of the Tongue Lightens up Encryption Hearing (fwd)
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Subject: [ISN] Slip of the Tongue Lightens up Encryption Hearing
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/25capital.html
May 25, 1999
Slip of the Tongue Lightens up Encryption Hearing
By JERI CLAUSING=20
WASHINGTON -=96 The Clinton Administration's point man on encryption policy
silenced his Congressional critics =96- momentarily, anyway -- with a slip
of the tongue at a House hearing last week.
"Never underestimate the stupidity of some of the people we have to deal
with," William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for the Bureau of
Export Administration, said while being grilled about whether terrorists
and criminals would be na=EFve enough to use the technology being pushed by
the Administration.=20
The House International Relations subcommittee meeting fell silent and
Reinsch turned bright red as he realized the double meaning of what he had
said. As the silence turned to laughter, Reinsch tried to backtrack,
blurting, "I didn't say that."=20
But it was enough to silence Representative Bradley J. Sherman. Sherman
promptly ended his grilling of Reinsch, who along with representatives of
the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was
testifying in defense of the Administration's encryption policy. The
Administration has tied any loosening of export controls on strong
encryption to the development of technology that would guarantee law
enforcement easy access to criminals' communications.
-o-
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