[48405] in Cypherpunks
Re: Downsizing the NSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologi)
Sun Jan 28 23:45:08 1996
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 23:36:03 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada))
Timothy C. May wrote:
>AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA
>just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more,
>congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees?
Your post is very interesting. I would like to add to it in the form of a question:
Q) What are the factors, in what context did AT&T and IBM and many other big companies downsize? Or, in other words: What are the ultimate contextual causes of the downsizing?
Regards to Cypherpunks from a new guy on the mailing list.
JFA
