On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Undersea taps are hard. No matter how you figure it.
You think subs are just toys?
Yes. Big ass toys for a bunch of boyz without brainz :-) And remember, "Ivy Bells" technology won't work here. That aside, I'm not arguing that it is un-doable, I am arguing that it is so difficult that it must be reserved for only those "special cases" where the risk/cost/benefits can all be balanced out (and where there is some backhaul available). Attempting to do this on a universal scale, just won't, well, *scale*. Not yet. I am looking eagerly towards entangled photons though, just to be sure we never reach the point of scalability ;-)
The actual intel/counterintel guys make shit for money.
What I meant was, Ames and that FBI dude Hansen (sp?), at least the KGB got Ames' wife as part of the package, whereas the FBI CI dude let his wife off as part of the deal he cut. Nice xian that he was, he was into strippers.
Aren't we *all* into strippers? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden - - - "There aught to be limits to freedom!" George Bush - - - Which one scares you more?