Re: <nettime> Al Gore and the Internet

[Prashanth Mundkur <mundkur {AT} ece.uci.edu>]

Gore also played a role in the Clinton
administration's pushing for the Escrowed
Encryption standard and the Clipper chip, which
was opposed (at least initially) by the very
industry that now employs V Cerf.  

A fine promotion of the release of the Internet
from government agencies, that was.


--prashanth

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