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Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY

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Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> Good point! I used to have top-secret clearance (which is now called
>> TS/SCI), but that was long ago when I worked in a building with heavy
>> curtains on all the windows at Fort Meade on "stuff" (while they were
>> building their new secure facility that had no windows at all in it).
> 
> Not that far, but I worked for a company that did use tempest proof 
> windows, so that mobile phones would not work inside the building, then 
> they had to install internal transmitters, because they gave mobiles to 
> their employees. They also disabled WiFi in their warehouse section, 
> they did not trust it (year 2000).
> 
> Windows laptops for people working on external sites had to connect 
> typing a password that was half remembered, and the other part coming 
> from a small dongle we carried somewhere in us. Every minute the key 
> changed.
> 
> And we could not connect via internet, or via the networked system of 
> their clients. We had to connect via modem to a gratis phone number.
> 
> Not as paranoid as the CIA, but still paranoid enough for a private 
> company. Once inside, the documentation was free to access to almost 
> anybody, it was a dream come true.

Oh, that's interesting. You learn a lot about what 'can' be done when you
work with these fellows, which, I guess, is what drove Snowden to do it.

I was there before cellphones were a thing, but, before we had clearance
(it wasn't just me, it was an entire group of people, we couldn't bring
transparencies, which, in those days, was how we did presentations. 

This wasn't the CIA, but something like that, and every department had a
numerical name, such as R123, but what I remember most vividly was the had
requirements for the software that nobody else in the world had asked for.

But, luckily for me, internally, when I needed to FedEx a magtape to the
home office for overnight bugfixes (again, that's how we did things then),
they were fixed quickly, and FedExed back, where many were buffer overflows
as much of the code was written in Fortran way back then.

It was phone, fax and Fedex, as those were the fastest means of transit.

Since this particular TLA used the software differently (which even then,
cost about a million dollars a seat), we could tell what they were doing by
the strangeness of their requirements, which no commercial company needed. 

Interestingly, since the company, like any company, had, oh, let's say 100
products, they were the only entity that bought every single product.

I never knew if that was because they didn't want anyone to know which
product was the most useful to them (since internally people knew), or if
they really were the only company that had no cost constraints at all.

But they did use some of the products that nobody else used, which, again,
made supporting them all the more difficult, as it's harder to help them.

All in all, when I learned what they were doing, which, well, in today's
day and age, I doubt anyone would be surprised, but I was shocked because
here I was this innocent little kid who played by the rules all the time.

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Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-28 16:01 -0400
  Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-28 21:19 +0100
    Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-28 21:01 -0400
      Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-28 22:19 -0400
        Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-28 23:00 -0400
          Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-29 03:01 -0400
            Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-29 14:14 -0400
              Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-10-29 11:57 -0700
          Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-29 12:03 +0100
            Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-29 11:24 -0400
              Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-29 21:05 +0100
                Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-29 16:31 -0400
                Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-10-29 21:20 -0400
                Re: How to copy text on the iPad to the Windows PC THE EASY WAY Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-10-29 18:45 -0700

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