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[Web Feed] Phew, don’t hold your breath. It’s like if they’re gambling on the requester ...
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May 12, 2021, 5:11:36 AM5/12/21
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..passing away before they begin to agitate their derrière
Phew, don’t hold your breath. It’s like if they’re gambling on the requester passing away before they begin to agitate their derrière.
On the plus side, there was an actual response, not like some idiotic and/or disappointing [non-]replies I got from US and foreign authorities… At least John Young had a specific starting point reference for the records sought, but requesting “all documents pertaining to a letter written by X…” seems vague and risky. In my limited experience (as compared to the Cryptome über-professional), when you’re poking in the dark, the authority will either interpret your request so narrowly that it will claim that the information demanded doesn’t exist (despite your precautions), or reply with “buffer overflow”, or ask for “clarification”, depending on their mood that day.
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Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s - Schneier on Security: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/05/newly-unclassified-nsa-document-on-cryptography-in-the-1970s.html
Phew, don’t hold your breath. It’s like if they’re gambling on the requester passing away before they begin to agitate their derrière.
On the plus side, there was an actual response, not like some idiotic and/or disappointing [non-]replies I got from US and foreign authorities… At least John Young had a specific starting point reference for the records sought, but requesting “all documents pertaining to a letter written by X…” seems vague and risky. In my limited experience (as compared to the Cryptome über-professional), when you’re poking in the dark, the authority will either interpret your request so narrowly that it will claim that the information demanded doesn’t exist (despite your precautions), or reply with “buffer overflow”, or ask for “clarification”, depending on their mood that day.
Link 1
Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s - Schneier on Security: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/05/newly-unclassified-nsa-document-on-cryptography-in-the-1970s.html
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