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Another aside. The NCSC is essentially a front for the NSA. NCSC exists but has no more than two employees, one is the secretary to an NSA official.

Extremely interesting. What does NCSC stand for?

tadpole 11 whois -h nic.ddn.mil ncsc.mil. National Computer Security Center (NCSC-DOM1) 9800 Savage Road Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000 Fort Meade *is* the main NSA campus. docmaster.arpa (nee: docmaster.ncsc.mil) is one of the infamous Internet spook hangouts. :-)

I am doubtful of the 40,000 figure even with contract employees. That's a small army. What the hell could keep that many people busy? (shudder)

You should take a look at the campus sometime, its big. Lots of big-sheilded buildings. Lots of big satellite antennas. I have no trouble accepting the 40k figure, it is, after all a bureaucracy. Jim