1994-09-01 - Re: Cyberspatial governments?
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From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu
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Reply To: <199408302123.RAA22479@walker.bwh.harvard.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1994-09-01 00:45:21 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 17:45:21 PDT
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From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 17:45:21 PDT
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: Cyberspatial governments?
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> If you talk about the actions of specific agencies, such as
>the FCC, DEA, NSA, etc, you will see that much of their motivation
>comes from bureaucratic turf wars. Seeing 'Government' as your great
>enemy is a damaging misnomer.
Indeed, many government policies can be understood only from this
perspective. Clipper is a perfect example. Key escrow exists only
because the NSA doesn't want to risk blame if some terrorist or drug
dealer were to use an unescrowed NSA-produced algorithm.
The fact that a terrorist or drug dealer can easily go elsewhere and
obtain other strong or stronger algorithms without key escrow is
irrelevant. The NSA simply doesn't care as long as *they* can't be
blamed for whatever happens. Classic CYA, nothing more.
A similar analysis applies to the export control regulations regarding
cryptography.
Phil
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- 1994-08-30 (Tue, 30 Aug 94 12:07:20 PDT) - Re: Cyberspatial governments? - frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
- 1994-08-30 (Tue, 30 Aug 94 14:31:48 PDT) - Re: Cyberspatial governments? - Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
- 1994-08-31 (Tue, 30 Aug 94 22:36:21 PDT) - Cyberspatial governments? - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
- 1994-08-31 (Wed, 31 Aug 94 03:51:34 PDT) - Re: Cyberspatial governments? - jkreznar@ininx.com (John E. Kreznar)
- 1994-09-01 (Wed, 31 Aug 94 17:45:21 PDT) - Re: Cyberspatial governments? - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
- 1994-09-01 (Thu, 1 Sep 94 05:40:03 PDT) - Re: Cyberspatial governments? - Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
- 1994-08-30 (Tue, 30 Aug 94 14:31:48 PDT) - Re: Cyberspatial governments? - Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>