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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Grenada - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 05:34:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 05:34:03 1983
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uokvax!rigney    Nov  5 14:56:00 1983

     In case it wasn't made clear, I'd like to point out
that the NSA would never break into UT to take fingerprints.
Black bag jobs were performed by the FBI at the NSA's request,
before Hoover "got religion" in his final years and stopped
the practice.  Outside the U.S., I suppose the CIA would 
perform the entry.  Its main use was to obtain diplomatic
codes from an occassional embassy; this is known as "Practical
Cryptography." 

     Would the NSA instead crack utcsrgv's security, and then
by an extensive analysis of login records and patterns of usage
deduce who anon was?  No, there's an easier way.  As a matter
of fact, the NSA has methods that can determine the authorship
of an article by comparing word choice, grammar usage, letter
distributions and the like, with known samples.  So if anon is
a frequent contributor under his/her own name, and the NSA wanted
to know that name, they do.

     Does anyone out there find this as interesting as I do, or
am I just an atavistic freak?  The Grenada discussion is grinding
down; maybe we need a new topic, so how about the NSA's role in a
networking society?

		Cheerily yours,
			Carl

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