From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 94 10:23:54 PDT
To: Blanc Weber <blancw@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: NSA and competence
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Blanc Weber says:
> From: "Perry E. Metzger"
> 
> ...They have plenty of money, and EXTREMELY smart people. ........ 
> That, and the concrete evidence that they are probably twenty years 
> ahead of us, leads me to believe that it is
> stupid to underestimate them.
> ..............................................
> 
> They sure make some BIG mistakes, though, don't they?

Everyone does. That makes them human. No one said they weren't human.
I didn't even say that I'd trust stuff they'd hand me. I just said
that there is concrete evidence that they are ahead of us.

> And they didn't cover up the Clipper mistakes very well at all.
[...]
> Do you suppose that maybe this is intentional?

No.

Perry