Re: Administrivia and spam rate - OFF TOPIC FOR FW..DEAD ON FOR SECURITY

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Chad Schieken wrote:

> I agree with Brad, and I've never worked @ the NSA. James Banford has found

Add me to the list of people who've never worked at NSA...

> lot's of things that the NSA has done wrong in the past, but when asked, he
> will tell you that he does not believe that the NSA monitors US traffic. I

There has been some speculation in the past that (whatever former UKUSA
countries are now labled) foreign analysts are at a US station
(speculation used to be Vint Hill Farms- your raving parnoia may vary) to
do such monitoring.  It's not immediately obvious that such a ploy wouldn't
be advantageous to secure monitoring rights in other's countries.  Yes, it's
speculative, but I don't think it's all that unreasonable speculation.
Anyway, without that, we'd have to talk about Checkpoint...

> would chalk this one up there with the "Mossad/Israelis have a backdoor in
> FW-1".

YM "Still[1] have a backdoor in FW-1," HTH, HAND.

Oh, I guess we have to talk about them too anyway ;)

Paul
[1] Yes, it's *now* an approved product, but us raving paranoids love
historical precedent.
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