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From: dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank)
Subject: Re: Clipper Not Good Enough for Government?
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Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 14:09:46 GMT
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In article <rdippold.735595213@qualcom>, rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold) writes:
|> There's been some discussion very recently as to whether the
|> government once again might exempt themselves from something they use
|> to screw us over...  Well, from comp.dcom.telecom:
|> 
|> From: lesreeves@attmail.com
|> Subject: Odds 'n Ends in the News
|> 
|> * The Clipper Chip device introduced yesterday by AT&T may not be
|> suitable for government use, says House Telecom Subcommittee Chairman
|> Markey.  In a letter to Commerce Secretary Brown, Markey asked whether
|> the use of the technology could lead to "inadvertently increased costs
|> to those U.S. companies hoping to serve both" the government and
|> private markets.  Markey has ordered Brown to answer several questions
|> about security and cost concerns by April 28.  (Communications Daily,
|> 4/20/93)

This is stupid.  Won't it cost more to those companies hoping to 
serve the gov't and private markets if they DON'T use the same
technology?

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Doug Bank                       Private Systems Division
dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com          Motorola Communications Sector
dougb@nwu.edu                   Schaumburg, Illinois
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