From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 13:58:22 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re:  A correction, and another motive for Clipper
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> either: 
>      a. The government taps itself, corruption is uncovered,
> and the national debt decreases.  Society agrees that public
> officials don't deserve privacy, but citizens do.
> or:
>      b. The government bureaucrats, seeing hard times coming,
> reject Privacy Clipping for themselves, and so everybody --
> gov and citizens -- retains their privacy. (This is judo: use
> their weight against them.) 

S.O.P. would be
	c. The government mandates that citizens use only Approved
Privacy Techniques, while government employees, "for national
security reasons", can use whatever they want.  

The government has a long and lurid history of placing less
restrictions upon itself than upon the rest of us.  I can imagine
general restrictions on crypto, but I can't picture the CIA using a
known-broken system.

> -a2.

   Eli   ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu