Re: why should it be trusted?

At 11:58 AM 10/16/00 -0700, Joshua R. Poulson wrote:

Isn't utterly obvious that the NSA, just any decent person, compartmentalizes its security so that if one system were broken, the other systems would not necessarily be broken?

Very well said. They also benefit from security via obscurity (to *some* extent) because they have nice men with fully automatic weapons to enforce said NDAs.