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| From: [email protected] (James R. Holthaus) | |
| Subject: Re: Fighting the Clipper Initiative | |
| Message-ID: <[email protected]> | |
| Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA | |
| References: <[email protected]> | |
| Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 07:42:05 GMT | |
| Lines: 43 | |
| [email protected] (Philip Zimmermann) writes: | |
| Philip, | |
| I think your ideas are well taken and constructive. Thanks for | |
| articulating them in this forum. | |
| >2) Work the Press. Talk with your local newspaper's science and | |
| >technology reporter. Write to your favorite trade rags. Better yet, | |
| >write some articles yourself for your favorite magazines or | |
| >newspapers. Explain why the Clipper chip initiative is a bad idea. | |
| >Remember to tailor it to your audience. The general public may be | |
| >slow to grasp why it's a bad idea, since it seems so technical and | |
| >arcane and innocent sounding. Try not to come across as a flaming | |
| >libertarian paranoid extremist, even if you are one. | |
| As a flaming libertarian paranoid extremist (:-), I'at a loss for | |
| specific objections that don't sound frighteningly technical. Any | |
| suggestions? Perhaps somebody could post a list of these? | |
| >5) Mobilize opposition in industry. Companies that will presumably | |
| >develop products that will incorporate the Clipper chip should be | |
| >lobbied against it, from within and from without. If you work for a | |
| >telecommunications equipment vendor, first enlist the aid of your | |
| >coworkers and fellow engineers against this initiative, and then | |
| >present your company's management with a united front of engineering | |
| >talent against this initiative. Write persuasive memos to your | |
| >management, with your name and your colleagues' names on it. Hold | |
| >meetings on it. | |
| One way to do this might be to suggest that these companies should be | |
| implementing their own schemes, not being limited to the govt's | |
| scheme. | |
| I find that most of my reasons for opposition to the CLipper scheme | |
| are algoritm insecurity and mistrust of the govt/NSA. These are hard | |
| to sell in letters to the editor and to nontechnical people. Any | |
| hints or advice. Maybe a small FAQ-type thing "Why should I Hate | |
| Clipper" would be a good idea. | |
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