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In article <bhayden.720452439@teal>, bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
> The October 26, 1992 Issue of Computerworld has an article titled
> "I SPY" (P.129). The gist of the article is that foreign govts. are
> using spy technology to obtain trade secrets from U.S. companies. 
> The trade secrets are then passed on to state owned (or at least
> state controlled) companies for their competitive advantage. 
> 
> The question is: If encryption is limited by our government, how
> Can we expect to protect ourselves from other governments' spying?
> One of the worst offenders is appearently the U.K. (One of our
> staunchest cold world allies). The same argument can be made for
> the FBI's proposed back door into comm equip.

The theory is that U.S. companies that the NSA likes will be able to
buy NSA-blessed black boxes to protect their communications.  This
is already possible -- the Type II STU-III's are sold only to defense
contractors.