[47375] in Cypherpunks
Re: remarkable recent stories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed Jan 17 08:45:42 1996
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:26:11 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9601170059.AA24758@sulphur.osf.org> from "Rich Salz" at Jan 16, 96 07:59:46 pm
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
rsaltz:
> Several times I have heard NSA staffers talk about securing our
> secrets vs. reading theirs. It seems that right now the first
> side is "winning."
This "Chinese Wall" exists in many other branches of the IC.
I saw this in a specific physical security area; Red Team tried to (say)
build a wall; Black Team worked on new ways through it. We (another
agency with an interest in walls) could & did get advice on
wall-building from Red; but the Blacks would not talk to either the Red
Team nor us.
Trying to predict the posture of the Fort _in general_ from the PhilZ
case strikes me as a less accurate than throwing darts blindfolded...
from a rollercoaster.
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