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This question has come up a couple of times lately, and nobody seems to
be talking.

Does anyone know the budget size and sources for CERT?  Is CERT
'officially' part of the government or do they operate independently?
And could a FOIA request yield results, do you think?

*waves to the CERT guys reading this letter.  They are monitoring this 
group, I have proof!*
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Anonymous says:

> Does anyone know the budget size and sources for CERT?  Is CERT
> 'officially' part of the government or do they operate independently?
> And could a FOIA request yield results, do you think?
> 
> *waves to the CERT guys reading this letter.  They are monitoring
> this group, I have proof!*

Well, considering that CERT is headquartered here at Carnegie Mellon
University, and the fact that cypherpunks is gated to a local group at
this site, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that they could be
reading this...

As I understand it, CERT is a private orginization funded by the
government (DoD I think, but not sure).  I'll ask on one of the local
message areas here and see what info I can dig up...