On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 mailbot@sunspot.net wrote:
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Headline: NSA abandons wondrous stuff Subhead: <box>Surprises: Astronomers who took over an abandoned spy base find remarkable, expensive and often incomprehensible stuff at every turn.
Very cool... I think it would be a profoundly and disturbingly interesting problem to try and do a security verification on the place, especially since miles and miles of cabling and fiber optic are being "inherited" -- do you know everything that stuff is hooked up to? Have you checked every inch of it to make sure it's not hooked up to something else too? Do you even know where all of it GOES? Heh. These astronomers may never know whether the NSA is reading all their astronomy long before they announce it. Fortunately, there's not *too* much motive to keep astronomy secret. Bear