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When you try to pronounce "NGSCB"...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Tue Jan 28 10:13:56 2003
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:06:52 -0500
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: fork@xent.com, InfoSec News <isn@c4i.org>,
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...it sounds like some place-name in Mordor: "Naagscab"
I suppose it should name a sulfurous cave, or some other, um, foul hole...
Thanks to Charles Evans for the pronunciation hint.
> Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial
> security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-
> bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing
> base".
Cheers,
RAH
Who liked "Palladiated", too...
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