Re: The F117A message left to cypherpunks by an anonymous fellow on Fri 4/5. What a bunch of bull! Consider the following reasons which are obvious to any intelligent and technologically savvy reader: "employs active and passive techniques to change color" Logical baloney. What is a "passive way to change color"? "Passive" means to do nothing, yet changing color is an obviously "active act". Sounds like $100 words that mean absolutely nothing if one things about what he is reading, rather than swallowing it whole. "When flying low, it adjusts its radar cross section to a high flying interceptor aiming radar downwards at it, so as to match its own radar reflectance to that of the ground". Logical baloney again. How can that plane know the radar cross section (the reflectance) of the terrain below it unless it is itself aiming a radar at the ground? But if it did aim a radar itself, it would stand out like a sore thumb to ground based receivers, so it couldn't logially do so. "ECM/ESM circuitsd are mounted on the skin to avoid the need for antennas". Technical baloney! A radio fequency receiver or transmitter needs a means to couple to the outside world; this means is called antenna. You just cannot wish the function of an antenna away; basic physics (of which the writer of the nonsense I am responding to is ignorant) requires a physical capture area for an antenna. And on and on and on... And besides, lets consider the motivation of the writer of the message which ostensibly "unvovered" the information he broadcast to the world. (Never mind that it was nonsense, as per above. Since internet is worldwide, is that fellow telling us that he, in his infinite wisdom, decided that what is presented as classified info should be released? Why? And, assuming that his information was correct which it isn't as per above, does he say that ALL classified information should be released by anybody that has it, or is he saying that he himself is blessd ed by the almighty to have this super judgement to unilaterally declassify things? Or is he telling us (assuming that his info is correct, which it isn't as per above) that he is knowingly guilty of treason for disclosing classified info and, as a logical corollary, that he wants to harm this country? Oh, well, the world never had a shortage of snake oil salesmen nor of irresponsible and treasonous fools.