From: greg@ideath.goldenbear.com (Greg Broiles)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 23:45:37 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: re: inept spy
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Chris Knight <uunet!crl.com!cknight> writes:

> I have an amusing note to add to this.  I was talking to a co-worker this 
> week about the clipper articles I had been forwarding him.  I told him 
> that I thought we would soon have a media saturated incident concerning 
> some form of criminal or terrorists.  
> 
> The criminal/terrorists would either 
> a) get caught, and the feds will claim this couldn't have happened if their
>    communications had been encrypted. 
> b) a terrorist plot will succeed, and an after the fact investigation will
>    show that the terrorists had been under surveilance, but the plot
>    wasn't uncovered because of encryption.

I'm not sure this incident helps the pro-Clipper folks; after all, it
demonstrates how difficult it can be to keep any information truly
secret, particularly where others value it highly. Yesterday's local paper
said that perhaps 10 people died because Ames revealed them as agents;
will the government protect the key escrow data more carefully than it
protected the identities of those agents? How many more "secrets" are
known by others .. how sure are we that some of "us" aren't really
"them" instead ..?


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