The Clipper Chip died a quick death back when the Clinton administration wanted it, as the push back against it was pretty strong. Now? Seems like a matter of time before every form of electronic communication has a dozen different back, side, and front doors into it.
I don't think that was mandated to be used for every device though. It was also shown to perform key escrow in secret and had its security defeated before it launched.
The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse.
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The political commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated that the six degrees of acceptance of public ideas are roughly:[7]
unthinkable
radical
acceptable
sensible
popular
policy
Has it? UK has a long-standing reputation as one of the most persistent surveillance nanny states in the West.
The Clipper Chip died a quick death back when the Clinton administration wanted it, as the push back against it was pretty strong. Now? Seems like a matter of time before every form of electronic communication has a dozen different back, side, and front doors into it.
I don't think that was mandated to be used for every device though. It was also shown to perform key escrow in secret and had its security defeated before it launched.
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window