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Re: (Fwd) New crypto bill clears committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan)
Fri Jun 20 14:36:56 1997
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:49:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
To: geeman@best.com
cc: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>, trei@process.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19691231160000.006c2884@best.com>
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 geeman@best.com wrote:
> you'd better be able to show a bad-for-business case.
There is a real big "bad for business" case. What happens when someone
walks off with the key database? (This is not a question of if, only a
question of when.) What kind of competitive boost would that kind of
information give the French, Japanese, Isreali, or other government
sponsored business? And how do you prove it?
If I was running a mega-corp, I would want to make sure that sensitive
information like that never left the hands of the corporation. Especially
not into the hands of a group as unreputably nosey as the feds. (They
can't keep their employees out of IRS records, what makes you think they
will be able to keep their hands out of the key database?)
But most in management have no clue about the things they are paid to
manage.
We are destined for a future made of equal parts of Orwell and Dilbert,
with a little Brazil and President's Analyst thrown in for good measure.
alano@teleport.com | "Those who are without history are doomed to retype it."
