missTwo blind graders agree (D7, rule D16). Not in the audit sample (D11).
Grader A: miss
Government key escrow was abandoned. The Clipper chip was defunct by 1996, and escrow proposals lost momentum because strong encryption such as PGP was freely available. In 2009 there was no general system giving authorities the keys to encrypted communication.
Test: Key escrow for most encrypted communication: abandoned (0%).
Clipper chip (Wikipedia) (retrieved 2026-09): The Clipper chip was entirely defunct by 1996; escrow efforts were made moot by widely used strong cryptography like PGP.
Grader B: miss
Government key escrow (Clipper chip) was abandoned by 1996, and no key-escrow regime covered communication in 2009.
Test: Policy test: abandoned.
Wikipedia: Clipper chip (accessed 2026-09-28): Key-escrow Clipper chip (1993) entirely defunct by 1996; strong crypto such as PGP spread.
All captured fields
rank
67
kind
decade_prediction
section
Communication
subject
Decryption keys made available to authorities
target year
2009
timing
in
position
Chapter 9, "2009"; item Communication 10 in Kurzweil 2010, p. 57
confidence
high
note
Wording as reproduced by the author in "How My Predictions Are Faring" (2010); book page not given there. Subject label is the essay's own item heading.