NODE b9bff541Re: Downsizing the NSA
"E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:31:35 +0800
From: IN%"tcmay@got.net" 28-JAN-1996 03:47:14.08
>However, as Phill notes, the NSA and other intelligence agencies are now in
that most dangerous of positions: a powerful agency or department casting
about for something to do.
Spying on citizens and keeping the keys to their private communications and
diaries is not an appropriate option.
AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA
just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more,
congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees?
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Funny, everyone seems to forget about China. If I were dictating NSA
policies, I'd simply reassign the people to China. Admittedly, modern
cryptography makes some of it useless, but HUMINT to get (parts of) codes
is still quite possible.
-Allen
NODE 9ab45814Re: Downsizing the NSA
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:43:31 +0800
"E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu> writes:
> AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA
> just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more,
> congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees?
I went to a talk by Andy Koenig a few weeks ago and he claimed that even
though AT&T is laying off people (and splitting) they're still hiring every
internet/security person they could find.
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