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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:33:44 -0700
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Subject: CRYPTONOMICON review
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New York Times
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/27network.html
May 27, 1999
Lawmakers Raise Questions About International Spy Network
By NIALL McKAY
n international surveillance network established by the National Security
Agency and British intelligence services has co
Niall McKay (apparently the author) forwarded a pointer to this New
York Times "CyberTimes" article on substantially the same subject --
it offers a lot more detail about the U.S. Congressional concerns
about Echelon. (For those without accounts, I believe the standard
"cypherpunks/cypherpunks" a
Federal Computer Week has an interesting article about the NSA
resisting Congressional oversight about Echelon:
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0531/web-nsa-6-3-99.html
At 9:18 AM +1000 6/2/99, Greg Rose wrote:
>At 16:38 1/06/99 -0400, it was written: [by Arnold Reinhold]
...
>>
>>I would argue that UNIX is an excellent object lesson for John's point. 12
>>bits was a bad design decision, even in the 70's.
>
>I take exception to this last statement. The design (of
