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Re: [Cryptography] TAO, NSA crypto backdoor program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lists@notatla.org.uk)
Fri Jan 3 11:05:07 2014
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Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:01:45 +0000
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John Kelsey <crypto.jmk gmail.com> writes
> Far more Americans are going to be willing to go along
> with the US government doing anything than with the Chinese
> government doing it. The spies trying to plant a weakness
> have the advantage that they can rely on patriotism, future
> employment prospects, legal requirements, or simply on trust
> ("they must have a good reason to tell me to do this.").
> A foreign intelligence agency has to rely on much more blunt
> methods--bribes, blackmail, threats, etc.
And pretending to be American.
"They probably were government - just not ours."
www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
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