Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 10:29:54 From: The Advocate Subject: File 5--About the Clipper Proposal Gentlemen. No matter about the clipper proposal. What the Federal government has not done in either the digital telephony statutes or the clipper chip proposal is prove that a problem exists nor that this is the least intrusive measure to resolve the problem. Digital encryption promises great power to the individual user, but the government has enormous power. The CIA and the NSA spend about 70 billion dollars a year, most of which is on technical signals capture and decryption. No-one has demonstrated that the CIA lacks the technology to still conduct wiretaps at points ahead of the encrypters, nor has anyone demonstrated that the NSA lacks the resources to de-crypt conversations. If in fact the NSA lacks the resources to de-crypt civilian conversations, then what have we been spending all this money for? Constitutional theory dictates that any government intrusion on a civil right, must take the form of the least intrusion. This proposal has not been demonstrated to be the least intrusive, nor has there been ademonstration that there is even a need. ------------------------------ From: Jim Thomas Subject: File 6--Dvorak criticizes the SPA Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253