RE: PPTP (again)

["Stout, William" <StoutW () pioneer-standard com>]

If a great number of security gurus question the security of PPTP, that
by definition makes PPTP an untrusted encryption protocol.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Weld Pond [SMTP:weld () L0PHT COM]
<snip>
> This is correct.  All that spam you get for "get rich quick" scams is
> actually data the NSA floods  mailboxes and USENET with so that they
> have known plaintext passing through encrypted tunnels.

You forgot the smiley.  Surely you jest.

There exists:
- a funded covert (cyberwar) project to compromise some
encryption/security products for intelligence purposes (clipper
contingency plan), 
- an overt FBI plan to compromise encryption/security products for 'law
enforcement' purposes (by Lois Freeh), 
- a project to place sniffers on all Internet backbones (via Janet
Reno), 
- and a plan to put 'Mind control' elements of Psychological Warfare on
Internet sites & postings (Congress, Porter Gross-R Fla.), 

but SPAM from the NSA?  Nah!  Too far fetched even for me.

Bill Stout
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Proud member of Hillarys' right wing conspiracy.