GR: Explosion

[Matthew P Wiener]

>One other thing, in connection with the WASTE/Internet analogy and the
>Clipper debate: reread "Entropy", TRP casually mentions the NSA in, what
>was that, 1960?  When the NSA officially didn't exist?

NSA always existed officially from day 1, in the sense that a (still
classified) document chartered it.  In contrast the British have special
groups that are simply there.

TRP mentioning it isn't so surprising: NSA was in the news about that time.
Two employees (Martin and Mitchell) disappeared.  The agency's reaction was
kind of slow and bored.  Then M&M showed up in Moscow about a month later
and gave a press conference, denouncing the NSA, and giving a list of all
the countries that NSA was cracking.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)