Clipper Comparisons for non-geeks

(First, geeks is a complimentary term, finger me for info :-)

I was talking to some friends about Clipper and it's dangers.  
Unfortunately, they are not very computer literate and really didn't 
grasp what exactly escrowing meant or anything.

Anyone have some more-common, real world, analogies I could make for 
future discussions? 

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Well, one way I've described the clipper to a non-computer literate
person is to have them imagine a situation where the government
required that you gave them a copy of your housekey, and, if you
decided to get a safe-deposit-box, they would get a copy of that, too.
Basically, whatever you consider private or secure, in a physical
sense, would still be wide open to the government, no matter how much
you wanted to keep it private or secret.

Granted, this isn't a direct analogy, but it's close enough to try to
get someone to understand the implications of the Clipper chip.

-derek

         Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
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