What are the hours of work? newhealthcollective.com After months of battles, a quiet quid pro quo was struck, according to a former senior intelligence official: Weâll let you export first-rank encryption, the government said, but we want to get a first look at what youâre developing and a back door into it. A Clipper chip wasnât needed, after all, if the government was going to get access to servers and telecom data. âThe way the encryption deal was worked out was that, in the end, controls were liberalized in various stages, in 1997, â98, and â99, and all of the liberalizations had a single bottom line: All products had to be reviewed by the NSA,â says William Reinsch, who was undersecretary of Commerce during a critical period in the 1990s when the NSA was undergoing a dramatic decline from the chief innovator of Americaâs spying technologies, and instead finding itself falling behind Silicon Valley and the telecom industry. âThat review meant [NSA] got to look at them.⦠It was a source of considerable irritation to companiesânot the basic fact of it but that NSA wanted to continue to do it for every product.
