From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:45:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Real or Not ?
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At 10:09 PM 8/28/96, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Eric Murray wrote:
>
>> Heh.  They forgot the Black Heliocopters manned by agents of
>> the UN/New World Order, and the Greys from Zeta Reticuli..
>>
>> It's a hoax, with several clues that it is a hoax in it.
>>
>> Of course you're welcome to prove me wrong by disassembling
>> a PGP binary.  Examination of the random numnber generator, IDEA
>> key setup, or RSA key setup vs what's in the source code
>> should show if something fishy is going on.
>
>Unless of course the program you're using to view the disassembled
>instructions has also been altered by the TriLats. And make sure you use
>any pre-1992 compiler on a pre-1992 operating system on a computer that's
>not hooked up to the Net or even located where NSA agents can get to it.

Ha! You think a pre-1992 compiler and OS wil fix this? What about the processor?

I can assure you, as a longterm Intel employee during these formative
years, that Intel was pressured into including the famous "NSA
instructions" into the 8080, in 1974. These instructions are well-known,
and the Cray had them as well.

Inasmuch as the 8080 instructions live on in every x86 processor--like the
reptilian brain inside all of us--this gives the NSA instant access to all
contents of the processor.

This is why I use a Mac, of course.

--Perry Noyd

We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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