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From: ccplumb@watnot.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Encryption of satilite broadcasts
Message-ID: <12280@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 15:22:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 15:22:30 1986
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Reply-To: ccplumb@watnot.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2485@prls.UUCP> ems@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:
>
>    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.
>
  Hm... As a Canadian, I'm not too up-to-date on U.S. counterintelligence,
but I don't think tapping every single phone line that goes across the
U.S. border is fully legal.  It's just that the NSA has been doing it for
so long, and can stonewall so well ("We can't tell you for security reasons")
that nobody's ever made an issue of it.

  But still, we don't need to make things *too* easy for them.  I'd say one
article could take a reasonable fraction of a minute to prosess, considering
it probably crosses the border several times.

	-Colin Plumb (ccplumb@watnot.UUCP)

Zippy says:
I just heard the SEVENTIES were over!!  And I was just getting in touch
with my LEISURE SUIT!!