On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:48:24PM -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:
When you talk about "collaborating" and ZKS selling beta software to the NSA, are you saying you've got information that ZKS gave the NSA access to more information than the general public got, and/or that the NSA got their access or information meaningfully earlier than the general public?
If that's the case, that's interesting, but that's too serious a claim to let pass by as an unstated implication.
If that's not the case - and they had the same access to the Freedom beta code that the rest of us outsiders/Cypherpunks/critics/commentators did - then I don't see an issue here.
Right. Selling the same products to the Feds that are available to the general public is not generally objectionable, and I don't see what the issue is with ZKS here. One might as well complain about the NSA buying symbolic debuggers. -Declan