[117932] in Cypherpunks
RE: Digital Wiretap Subsidy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Sep 15 22:26:15 1999
From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: "Ian Goldberg" <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:15:05 -0700
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Reply-To: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Ian wrote:
> Somehow it strikes me as really, um, funny, that the FBI chose a
> *Canadian*
> company to supply its surrveillance needs. :-)
AT&T got burned by the Clipper fiasco. The folks at Lucent might remember.
In addition, the FBI may have promised to lay in a good word for Nortel next
time a purchasing decision has to be made between Lucent and Nortel
products. Basically your standard incentivizing.
--Lucky
