1997-11-14 - Re: Navajo Code Talkers

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-11-14 17:46:08 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 01:46:08 +0800

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 01:46:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Navajo Code Talkers
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Tiny Timmy <tcmay@got.net> writes:
> Finally, there are a couple of Navajo lexicons and dictionaries now
> available, so the government has obviously not classified Navajo
> scholarship...nor could it.

They could try.  The Communist government of Mongolia couldn't come up
with any information worth classifying, so they made the locations of
the dinosaur bones (plentiful there) secret and even executed some locals
for "spying" (revealing to white devils where to dig for dinosaur bones).

Why is this any more silly than "classifying" the A-bomb recipes or
forbidding a college professor to explain crypto in his classroom?

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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