It is not possible to control this … It’s hopeless to try … I’d be surprised to see [the Clipper Chip] survive.
Predictor: Rutkowski, Anthony Michael
Prediction, in context:A remark Anthony Rutkowski, then the executive director of the Internet Society, makes about the Clinton-administration-favored Clipper Chip for encryption security at a seminar at ITU headquarters in 1994 is quoted in a 1994 article for Communications Daily. The article says: ”The Administration favored Clipper Chip has received its ‘death knell’ with reports published recently of its fallibility and the fact that encrypted traffic just can’t be controlled, Anthony Rutkowski, executive director of the Internet Society, told an Internet seminar at International Telecommunications Union headquarters [in Geneva] June 10. ‘It is not possible to control this … It’s hopeless to try,’ he said, referring to efforts by the FBI and other U.S. government agencies to force manufacturers to equip future telecommunications and computing hardware with the controversial electronic eavesdropping device. He added that there was ‘lots of encrypted traffic’ on Internet, most of it from defense agencies. Clipper, he said, ‘at most would apply to government traffic. I’d be surprised to see it survive.'”
Biography:Anthony Michael (Tony) Rutkowski was a lawyer and engineer who was an executive director of the Internet Society during some key years of development in the 1990s. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: June 10, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Communications Daily
Title, headline, chapter name: Clipper Chip Doomed? It’s ‘Hopeless’ to Try to Control Encrypted Internet Traffic, ITU is Told
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Vol. 14, No. 114; Page 2
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Smith, Ian T.