Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Encrypting your data to keep it private Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 00:02:14 GMT References: <6748@crash.cts.com> <61912@bbn.BBN.COM> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 23 jmc@DEC-Lite.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes: >The Bamford book struck me as somewhat biased by the fact that >because it didn't consider the job NSA has to do as important, >he concentrated on matters of form and procedure. Which questions do you leave to the reader to decide? Bamford did consider the NSA important or he would not have gone to great efforts to write the book, and to demonstrate the lesson we learned when ``gentlemen do not read other people's mail.'' (I've heard previous discussion about how the NSA attempted to keep the book from being published.) Also, in order to understand the significance of the NSA, one must understand what that agency does, who it reports to, and what type of politics have driven it in the past. Bamford presented just that information and let the reader draw conclusions based on that information. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]