Schneier on Security

Good news! The federal government respects and is working to protect your privacy… just as long as you don’t want privacy from the government itself.

In April 1994, the Clinton administration, cleaning up old business from the Bush administration, introduced a new cryptography initiative that ensures the government’s ability to conduct electronic surveillance. The first fruit of this initiative is CLIPPER, designed to secure telephone communications.

CLIPPER is a tamper-resistant chip designed by the National Security Agency, a super-secret branch of the Department of Defense…