[47768] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA vacuuming down Internet traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Tue Jan 23 15:13:52 1996
From: Rick Smith <smith@sctc.com>
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:08:14 -0600 (CST)
Cc: smith@sctc.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <m0teWZ3-0008zMC@pacifier.com> from "jim bell" at Jan 22, 96 04:25:47 pm
>>...listening for Kissinger..
> Don't tell me, let me guess: 20 years ago, if you had told anyone about
> this project, you would have had to kill them. Now, 20 years later, after a
> few levels of re-classifications and de-classifications, all you have to do
> is to sneer in our general direction. <G>
Not. It wasn't a classified project. It was upstairs from Woolworth's
in Central Square, ferheavens sake. SCIFs would have annoyed the
landlord, and presented interesting "challenges" given the pasteboard
construction. We didn't even have any of those clunky file cabinets
for Keeping Secrets Safe. We just amused ourselves with such
speculation, since this was clearly a technology that excited interest
in certain quarters.
Rick.
