[385] in Cypherpunks
Re: a valuable spy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue May 18 13:24:11 1993
To: karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 May 1993 00:11:02 PDT."
Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 13:11:52 -0400
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
>> The note from Watson could well be a decoy to draw the NSA off the track
>> of the *real* spy... :-)
Or, it could be from the NSA, trying to collect names and numbers of
people who are interested in insider information on Mykotronx. :-(
Marc
P.S. We could probably escalate paranoia indefinitely here....
P.P.S. Because they are attractive targets, it is illegal to disclose
the identities and home addresses of intelligence agents, which is
what "Mr. Watson" did. It is not illegal to possess this information,
however. (This is what I am told by an ex-NSA employee.)
