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Article #3404Stupidity
From: robert
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1987 22:05
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1987 22:05
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In article <924@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> lazarus@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew J Lazarus) writes:
>>the dumpster and use them to read past messages. (Would any
>>outfit be so stupid as to not permanently destroy the key tape?
>
>Yes, the United States Navy is this stupid. My understanding -- the
>newspapers all claimed it was 'classified' -- is that the Walker spy
>ring gave the Soviets the old keys. These were, of course, useless
There was an article in the paper a while ago about either the Air Force
or Navy, I can't remember. Apparently they had several hundred used tapes
they no longer needed. They sold them at public auction, complete with
classified (unencrypted) data.
--robert
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ptsfa!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!rutgers!im4u!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!stride!tahoe!jimi!robert From: robert@jimi.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Stupidity Message-ID: <465@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 17:05:49 EST Article-I.D.: jimi.465 Posted: Fri Feb 13 17:05:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Feb-87 05:08:58 EST References: <434@ethz.UUCP> <5580@brl-smoke.ARPA> <924@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: robert@jimi.UUCP (Robert Cray) Organization: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Lines: 19