Anonymous says:

Does anyone know the budget size and sources for CERT? Is CERT 'officially' part of the government or do they operate independently? And could a FOIA request yield results, do you think?

*waves to the CERT guys reading this letter. They are monitoring this group, I have proof!*

Well, considering that CERT is headquartered here at Carnegie Mellon University, and the fact that cypherpunks is gated to a local group at this site, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that they could be reading this... As I understand it, CERT is a private orginization funded by the government (DoD I think, but not sure). I'll ask on one of the local message areas here and see what info I can dig up...