Bullshit or Not ?
Alan Olsen
alano at teleport.com
Wed Aug 28 14:25:13 PDT 1996
At 04:57 AM 8/28/96 -0700, anonymous-remailer at 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.
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