[48038] in Cypherpunks
Re: TOP_tap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jan 25 17:15:20 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:58:45 -0800
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>, ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 12:55 PM 1/25/96 -0500, Rich Salz wrote:
>Up until recently (18-30 months ago) NSA employees were only allowed
>to identify themselves as employees of DoD. It was common knowledge,
>that unspecific references to Fort Meade meant NSA; and if you saw
>a P.O. from Procurement Office, Fort Meade, it meant the NSA was buying
>it.
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.
Bill
