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X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com In-Reply-To: <52B7C844.6080202@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:21:39 -0500 From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> To: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@gmail.com> Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com> Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com --===============3874820198640633335== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0116049e14ce7304ee3382bf --089e0116049e14ce7304ee3382bf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/22/2013 8:52 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >> The NSA has become the crypto world equivalent of Fox 'News': once you >> work there you can't work anywhere else in the industry. >> > Ouch! I have a fantastic job, and I doubt the NSA would want a > 50-year-old geek like me, but half of what really upsets me about all the > recent news is I've always wanted to do crypto (as well as what I actually > do - it's an ADHD thing). The recent revelations just show that the NSA is > good at their job. Why would that discourage geeks like me? Now comparing > to Fox News... that's below the belt. BTW, is there anywhere else that > even matters in the industry? Aren't they the elephant in the room? The problem is that after someone has worked for the NSA there will be under the suspicion that they might be following orders from the agency to put backdoors into product after they leave. What the recent revelations really show is that the NSA is abjectly incompetent at its real job which is making America safe. They have failed to protect the confidentiality of US government secrets. They were pwned by a 29 year old contractor. -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/ --089e0116049e14ce7304ee3382bf Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail= _quote">On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Bill Cox <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a= href=3D"mailto:waywardgeek@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">waywardgeek@gmail.= com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im">On 12/22/2013 8:52 AM, Phi= llip Hallam-Baker wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The NSA has become the crypto world equivalent of Fox 'News': once = you work there you can't work anywhere else in the industry.<br> </blockquote></div> Ouch! =A0I have a fantastic job, and I doubt the NSA would want a 50-year-o= ld geek like me, but half of what really upsets me about all the recent new= s is I've always wanted to do crypto (as well as what I actually do - i= t's an ADHD thing). =A0The recent revelations just show that the NSA is= good at their job. =A0Why would that discourage geeks like me? =A0Now comp= aring to Fox News... that's below the belt. =A0BTW, is there anywhere e= lse that even matters in the industry? =A0Aren't they the elephant in t= he room?</blockquote> <div><br></div><div>The problem is that after someone has worked for the NS= A there will be under the suspicion that they might be following orders fro= m the agency to put backdoors into product after they leave.</div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div>What the recent revelations really show is th= at the NSA is abjectly incompetent at its real job which is making America = safe. They have failed to protect the confidentiality of US government secr= ets. They were pwned by a 29 year old contractor.</div> <div><br></div><div>=A0</div></div>-- <br>Website: <a href=3D"http://hallam= baker.com/">http://hallambaker.com/</a><br> </div></div> --089e0116049e14ce7304ee3382bf-- --===============3874820198640633335== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography --===============3874820198640633335==--
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