why should it be trusted?

[David Honig]

At 11:58 AM 10/16/00 -0700, Joshua R. Poulson wrote:
>
>Isn't utterly obvious that the NSA, just any decent person, 
>compartmentalizes its security so that if one system were
>broken, the other systems would not necessarily be broken?

Very well said.  They also benefit from security via obscurity (to
*some* extent) because they have nice men with fully automatic weapons
to enforce said NDAs.