[67200] in Cypherpunks
Re: Clipper spin [was Re:Flood Warning]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Thu Oct 3 19:34:21 1996
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:03:15 -0800
To: Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
At 12:00 PM 10/3/96 -0800, Jim McCoy wrote:
>[...]
>>
>> High-Tech Leaders Join Forces to Enable International
>> Strong Encryption
>>
>> See: http://www.ibm.com/news/alliance2.htm
>
>The "International Strong Encryption" phrase is something that we
>need to become active in stopping. Anything which responds to such
>announcements should put a different spin on this phrase. If the
>Clipper farce is accepted as "strong" encryption then the battle is
>lost; maybe something like "it is _international_ strong encryption
>because it is the strongest encryption people like Saddam Hussein [insert
>bogeyman du jour] want Americans to have access to"
Idea 1: It should be called "International Weakened Encryption."
Idea 2: The "alliance" term above in the URL should be replaced with "Axis."
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
