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enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-17 13:46 +0000
Re: enigma Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-03-17 14:07 +0000
Re: enigma philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-17 10:00 -0500
Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-17 15:29 +0000
Re: enigma Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-03-17 22:23 +0000
Re: enigma Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-03-17 21:12 -0500
Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-18 12:39 +0000
Re: enigma scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-03-18 13:15 +0000
Re: enigma Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-03-18 13:30 +0000
Re: enigma Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-03-18 15:39 +0000
Re: enigma Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 08:26 -0600
Re: enigma Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-18 18:26 +0000
Re: enigma "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-03-18 19:00 -0400
Re: enigma Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-03-18 17:19 -0700
Re: enigma Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-03-18 17:27 -0700
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-18 17:47 -0700
Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-18 20:04 -0500
Re: enigma Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 21:28 -0600
Re: enigma hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-19 11:14 -0700
Re: enigma Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-03-20 09:02 +0000
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-18 17:47 -0700
Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-18 20:06 -0500
Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-19 11:01 +0000
Re: enigma "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 10:06 -0400
Re: enigma Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-19 16:17 +0100
Re: enigma greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2016-03-19 17:45 +0000
Re: enigma "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 14:00 -0400
Re: enigma sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-03-19 15:48 -0400
Re: enigma Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-03-19 15:10 +0000
Re: enigma Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-03-19 12:31 -0500
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-19 07:28 -0700
Re: enigma cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2016-03-19 18:05 +0000
Re: enigma Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-03-21 13:56 -0500
Re: enigma Andy Burns <feb2017-usenet@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-03-21 19:47 +0000
Re: enigma "capek@ieee.org <Peter Capek>" <peter.capek@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 23:16 -0700
Re: enigma Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-03-21 05:55 -0700
Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-21 12:07 -0500
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-21 13:51 -0700
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| From | mausg@mail.com |
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| Date | 2016-03-17 13:46 +0000 |
| Subject | enigma |
| Message-ID | <slrnneld8m.24a.mausg@Smaus.org> |
t downloaded "Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret", (and since realized that its 9 years old), fairly good explanation of the codebreakers, and how the operation was more than an Enigma breaking thing, Good book. -- greymaus . . ...
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| From | Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-17 14:07 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <l0elebtcjgt1mn0g61i9ammkt9la6mvquk@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #161147 |
On 17 Mar 2016 13:46:00 GMT, mausg@mail.com wrote: >t downloaded "Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret", (and since >realized that its 9 years old), fairly good explanation of the >codebreakers, and how the operation was more than an Enigma breaking >thing, Good book. My mother in law worked at Bletchley park, mainly punching holes in paper tape. The work was so secure that most of the people who worked there didn't know what they were doing! Decades later, when all the secrets were in the public domain, my mother in law still would not talk about the work. She was quite happy to tell me what a good time she had there. Steve -- Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com
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| From | philo <philo@privacy.net> |
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| Date | 2016-03-17 10:00 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <ncegjs$og6$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #161149 |
On 03/17/2016 09:07 AM, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: > <snipped> most of the people who worked > there didn't know what they were doing! In other words, just a typical job
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| From | mausg@mail.com |
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| Date | 2016-03-17 15:29 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnneljbl.2bi.mausg@Smaus.org> |
| In reply to | #161149 |
On 2016-03-17, Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> wrote: > On 17 Mar 2016 13:46:00 GMT, mausg@mail.com wrote: > >>t downloaded "Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret", (and since >>realized that its 9 years old), fairly good explanation of the >>codebreakers, and how the operation was more than an Enigma breaking >>thing, Good book. > > My mother in law worked at Bletchley park, mainly punching holes in > paper tape. The work was so secure that most of the people who worked > there didn't know what they were doing! Decades later, when all the > secrets were in the public domain, my mother in law still would not > talk about the work. > > She was quite happy to tell me what a good time she had there. > > Steve > There was in one of the books, the suggestion that one needed to be 'someone' to be hired. England at that time, even that a man called 'Flowers' was downplayed in some of the early histories because he had a Cockney accent, in spite of him being able to make the machines. -- greymaus . . ...
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| From | Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> |
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| Date | 2016-03-17 22:23 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <dl0p3oFrjapU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #161149 |
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:07:17 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: > On 17 Mar 2016 13:46:00 GMT, mausg@mail.com wrote: > >>t downloaded "Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret", (and since >>realized that its 9 years old), fairly good explanation of the >>codebreakers, and how the operation was more than an Enigma breaking >>thing, Good book. > > My mother in law worked at Bletchley park, mainly punching holes in > paper tape. The work was so secure that most of the people who worked > there didn't know what they were doing! Decades later, when all the > secrets were in the public domain, my mother in law still would not talk > about the work. I visited Bletchley Park a littel while ago (I've been several times, and the National Museum of Computing is on the same site). I was told of an elderly couple who'd been doing their 'bucket list', one item on which was a visit to Bletchley Park. They did 'the tour', one component of which was a visit to Hut 11 to see a (working) replica of a 'bombe'. The volunteer gave her usual talk, but was interrupted by the wife of said couple who basically said she was explaining it wrongly. On being challenged, she said that she'd worked there! Her husband was dumbfounded. "But we met in 1846 and you never told me", he said". She replied "Of course not, it was a secret". "I worked here, too", he said. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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| From | Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-17 21:12 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <D5ydnV3yAdNq_nbLnZ2dnUU7-L2dnZ2d@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #161167 |
Bob Eager wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:07:17 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: > >> On 17 Mar 2016 13:46:00 GMT, mausg@mail.com wrote: >> >>>t downloaded "Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret", (and since >>>realized that its 9 years old), fairly good explanation of the >>>codebreakers, and how the operation was more than an Enigma breaking >>>thing, Good book. >> >> My mother in law worked at Bletchley park, mainly punching holes in >> paper tape. The work was so secure that most of the people who worked >> there didn't know what they were doing! Decades later, when all the >> secrets were in the public domain, my mother in law still would not talk >> about the work. > > I visited Bletchley Park a littel while ago (I've been several times, and > the National Museum of Computing is on the same site). > > I was told of an elderly couple who'd been doing their 'bucket list', one > item on which was a visit to Bletchley Park. They did 'the tour', one > component of which was a visit to Hut 11 to see a (working) replica of a > 'bombe'. > > The volunteer gave her usual talk, but was interrupted by the wife of > said couple who basically said she was explaining it wrongly. On being > challenged, she said that she'd worked there! > > Her husband was dumbfounded. "But we met in 1846 and you never told me", > he said". She replied "Of course not, it was a secret". > > "I worked here, too", he said. Now, THAT's a story! Jon
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| From | mausg@mail.com |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 12:39 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnnenton.1sf.mausg@Smaus.org> |
| In reply to | #161167 |
On 2016-03-17, Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:07:17 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>
>> On 17 Mar 2016 13:46:00 GMT, mausg@mail.com wrote:
>>
>>>t downloaded "Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret", (and since
>>>realized that its 9 years old), fairly good explanation of the
>>>codebreakers, and how the operation was more than an Enigma breaking
>>>thing, Good book.
>>
>> My mother in law worked at Bletchley park, mainly punching holes in
>> paper tape. The work was so secure that most of the people who worked
>> there didn't know what they were doing! Decades later, when all the
>> secrets were in the public domain, my mother in law still would not talk
>> about the work.
>
> I visited Bletchley Park a littel while ago (I've been several times, and
> the National Museum of Computing is on the same site).
>
> I was told of an elderly couple who'd been doing their 'bucket list', one
> item on which was a visit to Bletchley Park. They did 'the tour', one
> component of which was a visit to Hut 11 to see a (working) replica of a
> 'bombe'.
>
> The volunteer gave her usual talk, but was interrupted by the wife of
> said couple who basically said she was explaining it wrongly. On being
> challenged, she said that she'd worked there!
>
> Her husband was dumbfounded. "But we met in 1846 and you never told me",
^^^^ :) Babbage?
> he said". She replied "Of course not, it was a secret".
>
> "I worked here, too", he said.
>
>
>
I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same
place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home
--
greymaus
.
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| From | scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 13:15 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <%bTGy.39354$3G4.11156@fx33.iad> |
| In reply to | #161172 |
mausg@mail.com writes: >I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same >place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home > OBSF: _The Laundry Files_.
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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 13:30 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <dl2e8dF9o4eU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #161180 |
On 2016-03-18, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> mausg@mail.com writes:
>
>>I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same
>>place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home
>>
>
> OBSF: _The Laundry Files_.
The protagonist has a dispensation.
--
Today is Boomtime, the 4th day of Discord in the YOLD 3182
I don't have an attitude problem.
If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.
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| From | Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 15:39 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <20160318153941.2ddea3a20a43b865cc7cbcb0@eircom.net> |
| In reply to | #161181 |
On 18 Mar 2016 13:30:53 GMT Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2016-03-18, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote: > > mausg@mail.com writes: > > > >>I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same > >>place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home > >> > > > > OBSF: _The Laundry Files_. > > The protagonist has a dispensation. Which can be overridden. I don't like their security enforcement - at least I don't wish to be under it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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| From | Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 08:26 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <1btwk3vp48.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> |
| In reply to | #161172 |
mausg@mail.com writes: > > I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same > place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home Absolutely true. All classified material is on a need-to-know basis in addition to whatever their classification level is; if your spouse doesn't have a need to know, you can't discuss it with him or her.
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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 18:26 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <nchh960hgd@news4.newsguy.com> |
| In reply to | #161182 |
On 2016-03-18, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > mausg@mail.com writes: > >> I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same >> place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home > > Absolutely true. All classified material is on a need-to-know basis in > addition to whatever their classification level is; if your spouse > doesn't have a need to know, you can't discuss it with him or her. "What can I say? I'm a spy." -- True Lies -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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| From | "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 19:00 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <nci18v0qv7@news4.newsguy.com> |
| In reply to | #161182 |
"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > mausg@mail.com writes: >> I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same >> place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home > Absolutely true. All classified material is on a need-to-know basis in > addition to whatever their classification level is; if your spouse > doesn't have a need to know, you can't discuss it with him or her. Even more, one does *not* discuss classified information in an environment where others, not possessing both the appropriate clearance *and* need-to-know, might overhear the discussion. Most residential occupancies fail to meet this requirement (think of how easy it would be to turn your telephone into a listening device). That restriction can be frustrating. A good example of that comes from the early 1980s when the gov'mt discovered that classified information was leaking from the US embassy in Moscow. NSA swapped out every device that touched classified information, including everything from computers and radio equipment down to non-data IBM Selectric typewriters and searched for the bug they believed to be be there. One of the NSA engineers, working by himself on a weekend found the bug (it *was* in the Selectric typewriters!) but had no way to tell *anyone* (including other NSA people involved in the investigation) about it until Monday morning. (For details, Google "Project GUNMAN" and download the redacted report from the NSA website.) ** A few years back there was a directive to <appropriate people> to avoid discussing classified material when in an auto equipped with OnStar or a similar 2-way audio system. The directive was issued when auto rental firms began to offer autos with OnStar. I may have posted this previously - but several years ago I had the opportunity to discuss the work at Bletchley with one of the hut leaders. He noted that for years many of the people who had worked there got together from time to time to have dinner, but would never discuss Bletchley or the work there because the material was still classified somewhere north of Most Secret. Eventually the Powers That Be decided that the cat was out of the bag and released the people from their oath of secrecy, but somehow missed the gentleman with whom I was discussing Bletchley. At the next dinner all the other people at the table were talking about their work, but my aquaintance, who had never received the release letter, did not. (His wife claimed that he turned green upon hearing material that he still considered to be highly classified.) Joe ** For extra credit, download *both* the redacted report (with large areas blanked out) and the "clean" version that's been edited to avoid the rough spots left by redaction. I find it very interesting to see which now-unclassified paragraphs of the original (very highly classified) report were clasified as "Unclassified," "Secret," or "Top Secret;" these marking are absent from the cleaned-up document.
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| From | Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 17:19 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <87io0jwc7x.fsf@garlic.com> |
| In reply to | #161205 |
"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> writes: > Even more, one does *not* discuss classified information in an environment > where others, not possessing both the appropriate clearance *and* > need-to-know, might overhear the discussion. Most residential occupancies > fail to meet this requirement (think of how easy it would be to turn your > telephone into a listening device). we were walking down isle at supercomputer conference and coming up to a booth and one of the people we were with, turned and went the other direction. later they said that their clearance required them to report any reference to the site (hosting the booth) ... even though the site had been declassified, their clearance hadn't been updated (and they were still required to report any reference). we were interested in the booth because they were one of the first IBM supercomputer installations. I've mentioned before working on cluster scale-up for ha/cmp http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp ... both commercial and scientific/technical with national labs. reference to commerical scale-up meeting in ellison's conference room Jan1992 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 within a month of the meeting, the scaleup work was transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer for scientific and technical *ONLY* and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors (contributing to decision to leave IBM) ... some old cluster scaleup email around that time http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa and then 17feb1992, IBM press, announced for scientific and technical *only* http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1 and 11may1992, national lab interest in cluster scaleup caught IBM by *surprise* http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2 other trivia ... two of the Oracle people in the Ellison meeting, later leave Oracle and show up at small client/server startup responsible for something called "commerce server". We get brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server; the startup had also invented this technology they call "SLL"; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". cryptologic museum has enigma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cryptologic_Museum The NCM collection contains thousands of artifacts, including numerous working World War II German Enigma machines (2 of them are available for visitors to try out), and a Navy Bombe used to break it. ... snip ... they also have an IBM Harvest display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HARVEST-tape.jpg -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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| From | Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 17:27 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <87egb7wbvn.fsf@garlic.com> |
| In reply to | #161209 |
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes: > had also invented this technology they call "SLL"; the result is finger slip had also invented this technology they call "SSL"; the result is -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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| From | Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 17:47 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <183340301.480041071.460766.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #161205 |
Joe Morris <j.c.morris@verizon.net> wrote: > "Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: >> mausg@mail.com writes: > >>> I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same >>> place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home > >> Absolutely true. All classified material is on a need-to-know basis in >> addition to whatever their classification level is; if your spouse >> doesn't have a need to know, you can't discuss it with him or her. > > Even more, one does *not* discuss classified information in an environment > where others, not possessing both the appropriate clearance *and* > need-to-know, might overhear the discussion. Most residential occupancies > fail to meet this requirement (think of how easy it would be to turn your > telephone into a listening device). > > That restriction can be frustrating. A good example of that comes from the > early 1980s when the gov'mt discovered that classified information was > leaking from the US embassy in Moscow. NSA swapped out every device that > touched classified information, including everything from computers and > radio equipment down to non-data IBM Selectric typewriters and searched for > the bug they believed to be be there. One of the NSA engineers, working by > himself on a weekend found the bug (it *was* in the Selectric typewriters!) > but had no way to tell *anyone* (including other NSA people involved in the > investigation) about it until Monday morning. It would seem that he could have called someone and just said "you need to come into work." -- Pete
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| From | JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 20:04 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <ra9peb9fmf4qaj471jhmmgrms0t4penfr6@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #161214 |
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:47:07 -0700, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote: >Joe Morris <j.c.morris@verizon.net> wrote: >> "Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: >>> mausg@mail.com writes: >> >>>> I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same >>>> place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home >> >>> Absolutely true. All classified material is on a need-to-know basis in >>> addition to whatever their classification level is; if your spouse >>> doesn't have a need to know, you can't discuss it with him or her. >> >> Even more, one does *not* discuss classified information in an environment >> where others, not possessing both the appropriate clearance *and* >> need-to-know, might overhear the discussion. Most residential occupancies >> fail to meet this requirement (think of how easy it would be to turn your >> telephone into a listening device). >> >> That restriction can be frustrating. A good example of that comes from the >> early 1980s when the gov'mt discovered that classified information was >> leaking from the US embassy in Moscow. NSA swapped out every device that >> touched classified information, including everything from computers and >> radio equipment down to non-data IBM Selectric typewriters and searched for >> the bug they believed to be be there. One of the NSA engineers, working by >> himself on a weekend found the bug (it *was* in the Selectric typewriters!) >> but had no way to tell *anyone* (including other NSA people involved in the >> investigation) about it until Monday morning. > >It would seem that he could have called someone and just said "you need to >come into work." This time I'll agree with you. But likely the people involved didn't think outside the box.
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| From | Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 21:28 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <1bbn6buowx.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> |
| In reply to | #161217 |
JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> writes: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:47:07 -0700, Peter Flass > <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote: >>Joe Morris <j.c.morris@verizon.net> wrote: >>> >>> That restriction can be frustrating. A good example of that comes from the >>> early 1980s when the gov'mt discovered that classified information was >>> leaking from the US embassy in Moscow. NSA swapped out every device that >>> touched classified information, including everything from computers and >>> radio equipment down to non-data IBM Selectric typewriters and searched for >>> the bug they believed to be be there. One of the NSA engineers, working by >>> himself on a weekend found the bug (it *was* in the Selectric typewriters!) >>> but had no way to tell *anyone* (including other NSA people involved in the >>> investigation) about it until Monday morning. >> >>It would seem that he could have called someone and just said "you need to >>come into work." > > This time I'll agree with you. But likely the people involved didn't > think outside the box. Even that could be a hint...
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| From | hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com |
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| Date | 2016-03-19 11:14 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <863408a1-0d01-4553-b076-676dca9b2209@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #161205 |
On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7:00:39 PM UTC-4, Joe Morris wrote: > Even more, one does *not* discuss classified information in an environment > where others, not possessing both the appropriate clearance *and* > need-to-know, might overhear the discussion. Most residential occupancies > fail to meet this requirement (think of how easy it would be to turn your > telephone into a listening device). During WW II, at Los Alamos, Gen. Groves planted microphones in the residential quarters to ensure scientists weren't discussing classified materials with their spouse. This monitoring was not appreciated.
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| From | Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-20 09:02 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <jmpseblef233hn4ruh49pcrp1cpf95k182@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #161238 |
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:14:29 -0700 (PDT), hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7:00:39 PM UTC-4, Joe Morris wrote: > > >> Even more, one does *not* discuss classified information in an environment >> where others, not possessing both the appropriate clearance *and* >> need-to-know, might overhear the discussion. Most residential occupancies >> fail to meet this requirement (think of how easy it would be to turn your >> telephone into a listening device). > >During WW II, at Los Alamos, Gen. Groves planted microphones >in the residential quarters to ensure scientists weren't >discussing classified materials with their spouse. This >monitoring was not appreciated. It could have been quite a turn on for him. Steve -- Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com
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