NODE 240e3d97Another Denning's view
blancw@pylon.comSun, 21 Aug 94 14:45:26 PDT
From Pat Farrell, quoting Peter Denning:
"..... Now the strength of the country depends not only on its
government but on its corporations. . . . .
A new policy aligned with the new clearing would be for the
National Security Agency to make its expertise available to the
private sector, enabling markets to flourish in a worldwide
information medium."
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What an amazing difference between Dennings.
What a great idea for the NSA were to become allies and start
working for us, instead of for 'them'.
The perception of it (NSA) would change in everyone's eyes;
even pencil-toting nerds could learn to like them.
Blanc
NODE 1c5235a7Re: Another Denning's view
Carl Ellison <cme@tis.com>Sun, 28 Aug 94 01:01:28 PDT
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 14:45:54 -0700
From: blancw@pylon.com
What an amazing difference between Dennings.
What a great idea for the NSA were to become allies and start
working for us, instead of for 'them'.
The perception of it (NSA) would change in everyone's eyes;
even pencil-toting nerds could learn to like them.
I ran into an NSA policy office person at CRYPTO'94 and suggested to him
that the NSA should set up a WWW page from the crypto museum -- and also
post occasionally to sci.crypt from some nsa.gov host. He was very open
to the first idea but not to the second. (problem apparently with the
standard disclaimer not being good enough for them. :-)
- Carl
NODE 9d434849On humor in the NSA
hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)Sun, 28 Aug 94 23:33:51 PDT
It was suggested by one of the NSA folks at CRYPTO that they should
have done a rump session talk on the "NSA Offensive Driving School",
which would completely explain the alleged threat to run Bidzos over.
In addition, not only were the 'behind schedule' shirts a big hit with
the NSA folk I saw, but at least some of them were going to get 'Sink
Clipper' posters for their offices.
Eric