"How do we reconcile the promise of a new high-speed national medium with the threat of a far-reaching, nationwide surveillance network, as foreshadowed by the Clipper chip scheme and the draft Digital Telephony bill? Isn't sacrificing privacy to make policework easier a threat to the principles this nation was founded upon?" « Stanton McCandlish , EFF Online Activist, question posed to panellists at NII Public Interest Summit, Washington DC, Mar. 29, 1994 »