From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:10:56 -0800 (PST)
To: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Newt's phone calls
Message-ID: <199701212310.PAA13624@toad.com>
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Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote:
| >No, the real danger in weak crypto is that the poorly-informed will not
| >think about it *at all*.  If we had "poor crypto", Newt probably wouldn't
| >have been embarrassed by this sort of casual interception, and the issue
| >wouldn't have been raised in the public mind.  But our communications
| >still wouldn't be safe from more determined attackers.  Brouhahas like
| >these are good for the pro-(strong-)crypto agenda.
| 
| Not the way we've being going on, Zero coverage of the
| crypto issue, zip, nada. That points to EFF and CDT not
| being on the ball on the crypto issue.

Was on the NYT op-ed page on Monday.  Something about scanners had a
few closing paragraphs about the ITARs with a comment from (David
Sobel)?

Adam



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