Traceable Infrastructure is as vulnerable as traceable messages.

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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Faustine:
> I think it's dangerous and entirely to your disadvantage to  
> dismiss everyone doing government work in computer security as 
> a donut- chomping incompetent Barney-Fife-clone imbecile.
>
> Anyone can laugh at the department heads on C-SPAN, but did you 
> ever stop to think about who's really doing the hardcore 
> research for the NSA at Ft. Meade--and elsewhere?

To judge by their most recent crypto ballsup, some donut chomping 
incompetents.

> And did you ever think that they may have decided it's in their 
> best interest to let otherwise informed and intelligent people 
> like you laugh them off as third-rate and underfunded?

I would never imagine a government department to be underfunded.

James A. Donald:
> > Similarly consider the CIA, whose assessments of the Soviet  
> > Union were consistently less accurate than my own.

> Not everyone who wrote assessments for CIA got them past the 
> politicized review of deputy director Gates. As you may know, 
> the whole culture in the 80s was characterized by a deep rift 
> between two warring factions who literally referred to each 
> other as "knuckledraggers" and "commie symps." If the symps had 
> the upper hand instead of the knuckledraggers under Casey,  
> there's not a doubt in my mind you would have seen an entirely 
> different kind of intelligence product.

The commie symps favored the "alliance for progress", which shows 
they were even further out of contact with reality than the 
knuckledraggers.  

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