From: Mikolaj Habryn <dichro@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 08:09:34 PDT
To: anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com
Subject: Re: your mail
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> 
> Subject: NSA Security Manual
> 
> You realize, of course, that by posting the manual verbatim you have allowed 
> them to discover where the leak was.  They have the ability to change the 
> wording slightly on every document, so that when you quote the document they 
> can discover who gave it to you.  That is why newspapers no longer report 
> quotes from documents that they have, or never show pictures of secret 
> documents.  Then again, for something as simple as a manual, they may not 
> bother to change each one.  But the capability exists.
> 
> user@host.domain.site
> 
> 

	Been reading a bit of Tom Clancy, have we? This ability is 
undoubtedly possible, however, as (presumably) each individual employee 
has their own (individualized) copy, they should realize that some 
creative editing has been done by just comparing notes.
	BTW - this was posted in phreak-45 - so the damage was done quite 
a while ago - look in the papers for mysterious car crashes.

MJH

*       *       Mikolaj J. Habryn
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