[244] in Cypherpunks
Markoff/NYTimes : "Big Brother & the Computer Age"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Lee Nussbaum)
Thu May 6 23:11:59 1993
Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 12:43:52 -0400
From: William Lee Nussbaum <wln@cs.columbia.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Since I haven't seen any mention of this yet:
On the D1 (business section) page, in the top center, in today's [May
6] New York Times, is a diagram and 38" story on issues re: Clipper.
Given that it's a finals week, I don't have time to enter much from
the article, but will note the following:
The first two paragraphs:
Can the nation trust its secrets to its spies?
That question underpins a fierce debate over a recently
disclosed plan by the Clinton Administration to secure the privacy of
the nation's phone calls and computer data with a standard set of
computer codes.
The first quotation (and the only one appearing on D1) in the article
is from Eric Hughes:
"This plan creates the ears of Big Brother, just as Orwell
warned," said Eric Hughes, an independent software designer in
Berkeley, Calif.
...
- Lee
