[48037] in Cypherpunks
Re: TOP_tap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Thu Jan 25 17:15:20 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:04:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601252156.NAA28359@netcom6.netcom.com>
On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
> Back in the dark ages (I think early 1980s), I attended a Symposium on
> Operating System Princples at Asilomar, California. My luck-of-the-draw
> room mate was wearing a badge which proclaimed that he was from NSA, Fort
> Mead, MD. A story of California hippy meets US-DOD.
>
I kinda feel sorry for the NSA staffers sometimes - they're basically a
bunch of computer geeks and math whizs who don't get to wear jeans and
T-shirts
