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I just tuned-in last night...Has anyone discussed the NYT op-ed by David Gelernter (associate prof. at Yale)? It was accompanied by a comic "the first wiretap" and Gelernter says common sense dictates that wiretaps be preserved and he wants the digital telephony bill passed. Paul E. Baclace peb@netcom.com
On Tue, 10 May 1994, Paul E. Baclace wrote: > I just tuned-in last night...Has anyone discussed the NYT op-ed by > David Gelernter (associate prof. at Yale)? It was accompanied by a > comic "the first wiretap" and Gelernter says common sense dictates > that wiretaps be preserved and he wants the digital telephony bill > passed. > > Paul E. Baclace > peb@netcom.com I sent a message on same into the void on Sunday. If anyone has it, I would appreciate it if they would repost it (I was unsubscribed to the list at the time.) This op-ed piece represents the strongest independent attack on our position. Someone should grab it from Nexis and post it. It has to be answered. DCF
I caught this in EDUPAGE -- sorry if you've seen this before (and
sorry again about posting by mistake yet again to the list, and sorry
about wasting so damn much bandwidth apologizing)...
From EDUPAGE:
SUPPORT FOR THE CLIPPER CHIP
Yale computer scientist David Gelernter urges support for the
Clipper Chip encryption technology and for the Administration's Digital
Telephony and Communications Privacy Improvement Act, the heart of which is
to give law-enforcement agents a continued ability to conduct wiretapping
with court orders. "Nothing would do us more good as a nation than to
reassert our right to tell the experts to get lost. I am a `technical
expert,' but don't take my words on this bill as an expert. I was seriously
and permanently injured by a terrorist letter bomb last year, but don't
take my word as a special pleader either. Take my word because common sense
demands that wiretapping be preserved." (New York Times 5/8/94 Sec.4, p.17)
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dat@ebt.com (David Taffs)