From: Zooko Journeyman <zooko@xs4all.nl>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:12:24 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: NSA leak magic
Message-ID: <199707280902.LAA21881@xs2.xs4all.nl>
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A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "Ian Goldberg" typed:

> Uh-huh.  Unless the Administration has granted a secret Executive Order
> repealing the Laws of Physics for the NSA, the above statement, if true,
> would imply one of the following things:
> 
> 1. <snip>
> 2. <snip>
> 3. <snip>


4.  It takes 33 minutes to view the satellite images, wiretaps,
and TEMPEST recordings, and bribe, threaten, cajole or torture
the subject's friends and business partners, and run the 
"stupid passphrase/weak random seed" cracker.


I believe it.


Z

who is still trying to grok how the girl scouts figure in.
"You're a thought criminal!"