NODE 49ff8067Re: What the NSA is patenting
jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)Sun, 8 Sep 1996 11:17:44 +0800
At 04:56 PM 9/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
>John F. Fricker wrote:
>>
>> This excerpt from a Wired article/interview
>> http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.10/departments/electrosphere/data.html
>>
>> "No data is totally safe," says Sharp ...
>
>That entire article struck me as a load of hogwash the first time I
>read it. This Sharp dude rehashed several old fairy tales about
>data recovery.
>
Actually Sharp appears only in that one quote. The article is poorly
editted. The rest of the article quotes some other data recovery experts and
"Sharp" is never mentioned again.
It's fun to debunk journalists but it takes more than saying "it's bunk".
--j