[44286] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape, Corporations, and GAK Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hallam@w3.org)
Thu Nov 30 15:23:15 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: hallam@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 95 14:40:01 EST."
<199511301940.OAA25768@pipe9.nyc.pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 15:08:31 -0500
From: hallam@w3.org
Folks, lay of Netscape on this one. _EVERYONE_ is doing Terissa for the feds to
use themselves. There are reporting requirements (FOI) which most people on this
list seem to enjoy which make the privacy issue moot. There are other people who do
not want to have non escrowed data flowing over their internal nets, nuclear
installations etc.
When I was involved in the site security area there was no way I would allow
messages to be bouncing round the internal net which I could not read. They
might well be from trojan horses planted inside the net sending data out.
Key escrow is not bad in itself. It is the idea that individuals be forced to
use it for private conversations that is the bad idea.
If people want to argue "make the technology avaliable and it will be abused" then
let them. Just remember that we normally argue the other side of the case.
Phill
