Horrible Idea : The Clipper Chip
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All on Tue Oct 16 05:17:58 2018
For many on these message systems this technology was before your time, but even today, down the road of history many years down the line the Clipper
Chip stands out as the government's greatest FUBAR (fouled up beyond all recognition). Imagine a cryptosystem that has a government back door with
poor crypto algorithms alongside the back door and having this mandated on everything that uses cryptography. Oh, and did I mention that the US government would be the sole country able to decrypt the data, even if you
live in Canada, Australia, the UK, Israel, France, Russia, or China. I mean really, if you're not American you shouldn't have to use American crapto.
This was one big TARFUN (Things Are Really Fouled Up Now!) Anyway so this disaster was not adopted for obvious reasons. Its really astonishing just
how bad government can mess up. This was a class all of its own.
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