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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Weak cryptography >> Key registration
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:50:12 GMT
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- In article <1ejd00INN894@transfer.stratus.com> cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
- >I trust the NSA not to be in the pay of the mobs.
- Forever? How about if things get tough here and government pay
- is cut but drugs haven't been legalized? A combination of a
- federal government financial crisis (brought on by the federal
- deficit) and increased corruption brought on by the war on
- drugs could put even the NSA in the pay of mobsters Columbia
- and Bolivia have already experienced this level of corruption.
- It could happen here if we don't clean up our act.
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- >Meanwhile, I'd be surprised if the NSA would bother breaking weak systems (eg.
- >straight single CBC DES) just for fun (eg., as a favor to someone (like the
- >local police) legally authorized to do the interception).
- What do you suppose that they have to occupy themselves now that
- the Ussr is kaput? They need the practice don't they? ;-)
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