that uncrackable encryption called PGP is
available worldwide for free for all common platforms of computers, that
McCain's bill would do NOTHING to address that (not possible anyway), and
so his argument WAS A TOTAL SHAM.
No newspaper in the country will explain that in their coverage.
The sole purpose of the McCain bill was to protect ECHELON.
# "The McCain Mutiny", By Todd Lappin, Wired Magazine, June 1997
#
# Question: How will we break the stalemate between the interests of
# industry and law enforcement in setting cryptographic policy?
#
# McCain: It's pretty clear that the administration's crypto proposals
# will have a harmful effect upon the industry. But we can't completely
# ignore the warnings we get from the heads of the FBI and the National
# Security Agency. We need to find a middle ground or else the president
# will veto the crypto bill and I doubt we can override the veto.
I am sure Senator McCain has no idea what the NSA is really doing.
Noone told him about domestic ECHELON, or how powerful keyword monitoring
is.
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