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Re: Too Much Information?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Sat Aug 14 16:10:47 2004

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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:54:57 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>


On Aug 12, 2004, at 20:06, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

>  Officials call that argument outrageous and argue some secrecy is 
> necessary.

It's an easy shot, but I'll take it: If some government secrecy is 
necessary, then the government should maintain some secrecy.  If Mr. 
Young found the information, there was no secrecy.

How about starting with the REAL secrets, like the names of cooperating 
al-Qaeda defectors?

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