re the secret source of that announcement in article merlin lerami lerctr org david hayes writes in article amolitor nmsu edu andrew molitor writes if you can get it for a buck nd hand it must be true eh i m pretty sure the nsa is supposed to among many other things provide high quality cryptosystems to a variety of places i don t recall reading anywhere reliable that they re supposed to monitor my phonecalls monitor usenet provide only cryptosystems they can easily crack etc etc this is not to say that they don t they might but you don t know that they do and you have no evidence that they do for almost all values of you it follows therefore that for most values of you your claims about the nsa border on paranoia andrew ok andrew i ll provide some evidence a friend of mine worked for an electronics manufacturer on with a west coast office they routinely sold story deleted let me give you another story that actually happened to me we sell communications boards that use a they used to be high tech our agent in the uk sold a system to a company in ch which packaged it in a product for cz london bern prague i telexed the brits and told them the swiss need to pass export paperwork through the us as at the time you needed an export lisence for these systems now i knew the nsa was watching this traffic just like they are watching this traffic and what do you know two weeks later an agent of the us government shows up in my office to remind me if we or our agents sold systems into the evil empire we had better make sure the export lisences were handled properly he was part of a five man office in columbus ohio who did this stuff based on sources he could not reveal i assume most of the time these guys sat around the office with their thumbs up their ass as there isn t that much stuff coming out of columbus wow the electric utility in prague sure is a big worry for these folks the point is we have created a giant bureaucracy nsa with a budget bigger than the cia s who like all bureaucracies fill their time looking for things to do the evil empire is gone the nsa is not they will do something to fill their time and justify their budgets i just wish they too would sit around with their thumbs up their ass but that is too much to hope for they will spy on us and do things like skipjack and subvert people like dorothy denning sigh information farming at for addr phone finger a a the ohio state university jebright magnus acs ohio state edu jim ebright e mail jre osu edu support privacy support encryption
