Pablo and NSA

[Jim Miller]

> NSA provided Columbian officials with the tools
> necessary to decipher communication between the
> Columbian drug lord and his cohorts.  Escobar had been
> communicating by computer using the American Pretty
> Good Privacy (PGP) software product which was
> compromised by NSA officials working at a remote
> listening station in the Columbian jungle. 

> 


Hopefully this is a joke.  However, it does bring up a point.  The NSA can  
put fear into people's minds by simply *claiming* the ability to  
compromise PGP.  They don't have to really be able to.  Just start a  
rumor, sit back, and watch what happens.

Jim_Miller at suite.com