Bruce Schneier to leave BT

John Young jya at pipeline.com
Mon Dec 16 13:02:53 PST 2013


At 03:30 PM 12/16/2013, you wrote:
>What do you consider to be a dual-hat?

Working on classified and unclassified projects on the same
or related topics, subject to NDAs and secrecy clearance agreements.
While also working the public celebrity arena leaking hints and yarps
about what's behind the cloak that cannot be disclosed.

Corresponds roughly to dual-use technology, such as, notably,
crypto, nuclear, biological, chemical, radiological. These and much
other dual-use technology are fulsomely described in global export
control regimes, like the Wassenaar Arrangement. But quite a
few dual-use controls are themselves secret. Finance gets a lot
of open and classified attention. Crypto is a pretty good pathfinder
to trace the other technologies and their profiteers, so it gets a
special place in the pantheon of lucrative treachery, right up
there next to law and politics, all dual-hatted, so duplictious that
mere duality of forked-tongues should be understood as
over-simplification.






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