urban@trwspp.UUCP (02/16/84)
The encryption-box story sounds like another version of the Lost Magic Thingie legend which (I suspect) a folklorist could trace back several thousand years. Haven't you heard about the magic pill that turns water into gasoline that the oil companies suppressed and the 100mpg engine that the backyard inventor foolishly sold to General Motors (who've been keeping it secret ALL THESE YEARS)? Genuine Working Ideas have a way of breaking secrecy. Mike