full-disclosure - NSA tracking open source security tools

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Date: Sun Feb  5 00:22:06 2006
From: jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)
Subject: NSA tracking open source security tools

Jason Coombs wrote:
> Sure, it made for a fine photo op. But based on the Bush 
> administration's decision-making processes there is good reason to 
> believe that A) the people at the NSA who created the mock-ups for 
> public relations purposes died unexpectedly and the people who took over 
> their jobs didn't know that the intelligence they were looking at was 
> meaningless drivel produced for the benefit of manipulating public 
> opinion, or B) the NSA is only showing the Bush administration the same 
> mock-ups that the rest of us get to see.

C) it's something to put in the background for the media blitz that tags 
along behind the prez.  Surely you don't think that the NSA would allow 
cameras into their real NOC/SOC/POC/FOC/LOC/CROCK....

-Jim P.