re the secret source of that announcement in article gradyc uamw bng netcom com grady netcom com ef writes i guess the cryptowranglers read this group too but of course i knew that because it is so easy to do there is not a single doubt in my mind that every byte that passes every significant gateway or bone is captured for the colligation of data about maybe your name is here i really like these claims where did they come from we hear practically daily that the nsa monitors oh everything they can crack anything they d never release a cryptosystem they couldn t crack where do people get these fascinating facts the puzzle palace 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
