Another Denning's view
From Pat Farrell, quoting Peter Denning:
"..... Now the strength of the country depends not only on its government but on its corporations. . . . . A new policy aligned with the new clearing would be for the National Security Agency to make its expertise available to the private sector, enabling markets to flourish in a worldwide information medium." ................................................................. ..... What an amazing difference between Dennings. What a great idea for the NSA were to become allies and start working for us, instead of for 'them'. The perception of it (NSA) would change in everyone's eyes; even pencil-toting nerds could learn to like them. Blanc
It was suggested by one of the NSA folks at CRYPTO that they should have done a rump session talk on the "NSA Offensive Driving School", which would completely explain the alleged threat to run Bidzos over. In addition, not only were the 'behind schedule' shirts a big hit with the NSA folk I saw, but at least some of them were going to get 'Sink Clipper' posters for their offices. Eric
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 14:45:54 -0700 From: blancw@pylon.com What an amazing difference between Dennings. What a great idea for the NSA were to become allies and start working for us, instead of for 'them'. The perception of it (NSA) would change in everyone's eyes; even pencil-toting nerds could learn to like them. I ran into an NSA policy office person at CRYPTO'94 and suggested to him that the NSA should set up a WWW page from the crypto museum -- and also post occasionally to sci.crypt from some nsa.gov host. He was very open to the first idea but not to the second. (problem apparently with the standard disclaimer not being good enough for them. :-) - Carl
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