17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
nobody@shell.portal.com says:
OTOH, one need not assume that everyone at NSA is a rocket scientist and that they are miles ahead of us in this game.
Well, the concrete evidence thus far is that they are ahead of us.
The long undistinguished history of federal agencies shows them to be full of incompetence, waste and usually gross fraud as well.
Sure. However, ten billion dollars spent at only 25% efficiency is still 2.5 billion dollars. They have plenty of money, and EXTREMELY smart people. Bob Morris isn't a weenie. Neither are any of the other NSAoids I know of. That, and the concrete evidence that they are probably twenty years ahead of us, leads me to believe that it is stupid to underestimate them. Perry