At 04:57 AM 8/28/96 -0700, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:

I snagged this off a news group this AM.. comments??

A lot of people think that PGP encryption is unbreakable and that the NSA/FBI/CIA/MJ12 cannot read their mail. This is wrong, and it can be a deadly mistake. In Idaho, a left-wing activist by the name of Craig Steingold was arrested _one day_ before he and others where to stage a protest at government buildings; the police had a copy of a message sent by Steingold to another activist, a message which had been encrypted with PGP and sent through E-mail.

This is quite bogus. The first clue is the mention of "Craig Stiengold". A variation of "Craig Shergold" a widely known (and misspelled) urban legend. This has been debunked a number of times. --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."