Re: U.S. CIA employee caught spying
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:05:47 -0500 (EST), Tim Scanlon wrote:
This is on the local DC news;
Harold Nicholson age 46, a CIA employee was arrested for spying today at Dulles airport. He allegedly has been working for the Russians for the past 2 years.
Here's a good question to ask: "Why are we getting security policy from the
[un]intelligence agencies?"
What will get mentioned, however, will be: "If he'd been using PGP we'd
never have caught him. This is why we need GAK!"
# Chris Adams
At 6:37 PM -0700 11/20/96, Adamsc wrote:
What will get mentioned, however, will be: "If he'd been using PGP we'd never have caught him. This is why we need GAK!"
Or the more positive way of looking at things: "If he had been using digital dead drops instead of old-fashioned postcards, and if he'd been using more sophisticated money management schemes instead of simple deposits after trips to Europe, he might not have been caught." (By the way, it's the dumb and/or careless ones who get caught. I surmise that for every one caught, an average of two are still spying. And they probably _are_ wiping their hard drives more carefully, probably _are_ using digital dead drops (a la message pools), and probably _are_ having their fees wired directly to their offshore accounts.) --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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