Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

[Tim May]

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