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Hersh on NSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon Nov 29 12:16:50 1999
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Here's Seymour Hersh's article in The New Yorker
of December 6 on NSA's troubles with the digital age:
http://cryptome.org/nsa-hersh.htm (36K)
Opening:
"The National Security Agency, whose Cold War
research into code breaking and electronic
eavesdropping spurred the American computer
revolution, has become a victim of the high-tech
world it helped to create. Through mismanagement,
arrogance, and fear of the unknown, the senior
military and civilian bureaucrats who work at the
agency's headquarters, in suburban Fort Meade,
Maryland, have failed to prepare fully for today's
high-volume flow of E-mail and fibre-optic
transmissions -- even as nations throughout Europe,
Asia, and the Third World have begun exchanging
diplomatic and national-security messages
encrypted in unbreakable digital code."
