Wabe <wabe@smart.net> writes:
What is that weird lawsuit all about where some director of the NSA is getting sued for something? Does anyone know?
Bill Payne used to work for one of the US national labs, he did some work funded by NSA at that lab. He considered that the NSA were making incompetent cryptographic decisions endangering national security. He's suing them over their attempts to silence his criticisms by working behind the scenes to deprive him of research funding. Bill will have to provide a better summary himself, as the above is from memory, and I wasn't paying that much attention, and the above could be garbage. The practice of suing the director of NSA "DIRNSA" in such suits involving disputes with NSA is common practice... Dan Bernstein's case pursued by EFF, John Gilmore etc, and Peter Junger's case (both arguing that the ITAR/EARs are unconstitutional) involved suing the NSA, DIRNSA and a list of other misc. government officials. Adam btw. your netscape set up is broken... it includes an html version of your post below the ascii version. There is a setting somewhere were you have a choice to send ascii, or html or both. You clearly have this set to both.
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