[117962] in Cypherpunks
Re: Ah. That's more like it...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Thu Sep 16 18:35:30 1999
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:07:15 -0400
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From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
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Both DoD's Hamre and Janet Reno said at the press conference
that the new policy is not a relaxation of encryption controls,
no way.
As the adminstriation team described it on CNN, the policy
is not a relaxation, but a repeat of last year's dissimulation.
The proof: Hamre said Representative Goss agrees with
the policy.
Goss's powerplay substitute amendment for the SAFE bill is as
draconian a deception as has been perpetrated in the crypto
wars. The policy announced today, apparently with PECSENC's
and maybe other beltway players' advice, is to proclaim a new
policy for what is actually the old policy made even worse for
those who favor protection from prying governments.
That nearly all the press reports are touting the administration's
spin is much of the same complicitous contempt for public interests
over the national and domestic security mongerers.
The CNN performance was truly a revolting spectacle of official
lying. Dorothy Denning writes on UK Crypto it was a positive
step forward.
For whom? You know for whom the bell tolls. Read the only
slightly rouged CESA legislation being sent to Congress
today.
