On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > >Undersea taps are hard. No matter how you figure it. > > You think subs are just toys?
Yes. Big ass toys for a bunch of boyz without brainz :-) And remember, "Ivy Bells" technology won't work here. That aside, I'm not arguing that it is un-doable, I am arguing that it is so difficult that it must be reserved for only those "special cases" where the risk/cost/benefits can all be balanced out (and where there is some backhaul available). Attempting to do this on a universal scale, just won't, well, *scale*. Not yet. I am looking eagerly towards entangled photons though, just to be sure we never reach the point of scalability ;-) > >The actual intel/counterintel guys make shit for money. > > What I meant was, Ames and that FBI dude Hansen (sp?), at least the KGB > got Ames' wife as part of the package, whereas the FBI CI dude > let his wife off as part of the deal he cut. Nice xian that he was, he > was into strippers. Aren't we *all* into strippers? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden - - - "There aught to be limits to freedom!" George Bush - - - Which one scares you more?