News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Fri Aug 31 12:32:13 PDT 2001
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
>> But, as with Kirchoff's point, the attacker is going to get the design
>> eventually.
>
> If getting the design "eventually" were good enough, why the keen
> interest
> in putting in a large order for the beta? There's a reason.
Perhaps the NSA wanted to use the product without making illegal copies?
Your earlier point (that they wished to reverse-engineer the product) is
in fact undermined by this fact that they bought N copies.
--Tim May
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