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From: ems@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Encryption of satilite broadcasts
Message-ID: <2485@prls.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 12:14:03 EST
Article-I.D.: prls.2485
Posted: Mon Dec  8 12:14:03 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 8-Dec-86 22:16:11 EST
References: <543@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ems@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Organization: Philips Res. Labs, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <543@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> simsong@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes ( in his .signature file) :
>
>================================================================
>			Simson L. Garfinkel
>			MIT Media Lab
>
>This posting completely reflects my views. Isn't that neat?
>-- 
> [ line containing words NSA suppossedly scans for; deleted -gpv ]
> The above is food for the NSA line eater.  Add it to your .signature and
> you too can help overflow the NSA's ability to scan all traffic going in or
> out of the USA looking for "significant" words.  (This is not a joke, sadly.)

    I may not condone the NSA's practice of searching exported data for 
'significant words' but as long as the practice is legal, and while my
tax dollars are helping to support their efforts , I'd like to see the
NSA operate as effeciantly as possiable .
    If you don't like what they do, there are more constructive ways to
protest .  Your .signature file is not going to make them stop or even to
consider stopping their suppossed actions. You accomplish nothing, they
continue as always. At most you've wasted a couple of seconds of some poor
clods day and burned up few nano-seconds of Cray cpu time. So what. Sounds
real adolescent to me.

------------- fold, spindle, mutilate at will ------(it's your CRT) ----
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  [ In this correspondance, I am representing myself and no others. 
  I am not part of the PRLS group, but they are nice enough to allow me
  to TIP(1) to an account on their machine so I can send/receive email.]