[48075] in Cypherpunks
Re: TOP_tap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Jan 25 21:29:30 1996
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Simon Spero)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 20:30:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: frantz@netcom.com, rsalz@osf.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960125140223.1505B-100000@chivalry> from "Simon Spero" at Jan 25, 96 02:04:37 pm
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
> 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
This *is* a real problem. They take very highly skilled geniuses and
tell them "no one will ever know what you've done.." & their morale does
suffer...
Just suppose YOU discovered (say) a new factoring method... and
could only watch others getting Nobel prizes.....
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