From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 93 13:47:45 PDT
To: smb@research.att.com
Subject: Re: MISC: thought for the dat
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> 	                -Lieutenant Worf,chief of security, U.S.S.Enterprise
> 
> 
> 	  From the star trek next generation book "20th century computers
> 	 and how they worked" by Jennifer Flynn published by alpha books.
> 	 ISBN 1-56761-257-1
> 
> Hardly a new sentiment.  From Kahn:
> 
> 	``Gentlemen do not read each other's mail''.  Henry Stimson,
> 	Secretary of State, 1929, shutting down the American Black Chamber.
> 

Speaking of crypto in "Star Trek," wasn't this in "The Wrath of Kahn"?


-Tim


(Sorry, Eric, for wasting bandwidth...at least it's not a flame.)


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