Bill Cheek writes in a message to Scott Christensen
 BC> The government BUILT, developed, and then gave away the Internet. 
Actual control is not required in order to snoop...
    
 SC> So I think that there is a definite "snoop factor" involved.
 BC>  Easily countered, though. 
  
So counter it!  
  
 SC> Remember the "clipper chip?"  This was their way of giving us a false
 SC> sense of security - *they* could break that encryption any time they
 SC> wanted.
 BC>  Security? Hah! The Clipper Chip had everyone's rectums pinching 
 BC> down on their seats. No love for that puppy..........
  
Exactly my point.  It isn't security at all.
  
 BC> There are growing pains associated with anything new. We have 
 BC> to evolve our own standards and secure methodologies and keep 
 BC> the government out of it. 
  
But can you say they aren't monitoring?  Now?  Why would Al Gore push it so 
hard if the government wasn't real interested in it - for their own personal 
uses.
  
 BC> It is against Fido Policy4 to do that. But then maybe the government 
 BC> has been running Fido all these years.........
  
So change "Policy."    As for anyone running Fidonet, I doubt that 
*anyone* actually does!  
 
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