At 12:55 PM 1/25/96 -0500, Rich Salz wrote:
Up until recently (18-30 months ago) NSA employees were only allowed to identify themselves as employees of DoD. It was common knowledge, that unspecific references to Fort Meade meant NSA; and if you saw a P.O. from Procurement Office, Fort Meade, it meant the NSA was buying it.
Back in the dark ages (I think early 1980s), I attended a Symposium on Operating System Princples at Asilomar, California. My luck-of-the-draw room mate was wearing a badge which proclaimed that he was from NSA, Fort Mead, MD. A story of California hippy meets US-DOD. Bill
On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
Back in the dark ages (I think early 1980s), I attended a Symposium on Operating System Princples at Asilomar, California. My luck-of-the-draw room mate was wearing a badge which proclaimed that he was from NSA, Fort Mead, MD. A story of California hippy meets US-DOD.
I kinda feel sorry for the NSA staffers sometimes - they're basically a bunch of computer geeks and math whizs who don't get to wear jeans and T-shirts
I kinda feel sorry for the NSA staffers sometimes - they're basically a bunch of computer geeks and math whizs who don't get to wear jeans and T-shirts
This *is* a real problem. They take very highly skilled geniuses and tell them "no one will ever know what you've done.." & their morale does suffer... Just suppose YOU discovered (say) a new factoring method... and could only watch others getting Nobel prizes..... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
This *is* a real problem. They take very highly skilled geniuses and tell them "no one will ever know what you've done.." & their morale does suffer...
Just suppose YOU discovered (say) a new factoring method... and could only watch others getting Nobel prizes.....
Maybe they think that anyone who is worthy of knowing - works at NSA. As Wittgenstein noted, "where the masses also drink, all wells are poisoned".
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