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Article #836Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
From: Stanley T.H. Chow
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:48
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:48
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In article <1zhng-h.strnlght@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes: > >Then there's the famous story about the time they were building CIA >headquarters, and a local real estate developer wanted to know how >many employees would be housed there, so he could plan some residential >developments nearby. He was completely stonewalled, so he called the >Soviet Embassy and they told him. They had it just about dead on. Remember, the reason for classifying information as "Secret" is usually to hide it from your friends/citizens/boss/etc. The "Enemy" is just the most convienent excuse. Why else would the US DoD want to classify satelite pictures that the Soviets were selling? To bring this back to sci.crypt, this is the reason why people have the idea that NSA is trying to make sure crypto-systems weak enough for NSA to crack. -- Stanley Chow InterNet: schow@BNR.CA Bell Northern Research UUCP: ..!uunet!bnrgate!bqneh3!schow (613) 763-2831 Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!cunews!nrcnet0!bnrgate!bmerh85!bcars64a!bqneh23!schow From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret! Message-ID: <1992Sep1.194851.2062@bcars64a.bnr.ca> Sender: news@bcars64a.bnr.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa References: <1zhng-h.strnlght@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:48:51 GMT Lines: 23