[12021] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Clipper and Aldrich Ames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
Mon May 2 16:30:33 1994
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 06:03:37 -0500
To: bryon@boa.meaddata.com (Bryon Propst), com-priv@psi.com
From: ped@panix.com (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
This story has been floating around for several months with only the most
flimsy sourcing. It was pretty thoroughly debunked the first time around.
Did Data Communications report it as a meme or a true fact?
At 6:16 PM 4/25/94 -0400, Bryon Propst wrote:
>> > Data Communications reported in their April issue that the Clipper
>> > technology may have been sold to the Russians by Aldrich Ames, thereby
>> > making it an obsolete technology for the US gvt. However, I have heard
>> > nothing more about the validity of this report.
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