As we approach the 30th anniversary of the announcement of the Clipper Chip, the NSA’s ill-fated attempt to standardize a key escrow system for commercial cryptography, I recently came across the coffee mug they gave me when I picked up my sample Tessera/Fortezza PCMCIA cards while visiting Fort Meade. (It has a hidden message behind a thermochromatic coating.)
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For those who are computer-ignorant, PCMCIA stands for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms."
(Yeah, I know it's not really an acronym, but didn't want to ruin the joke.)
