robert@jimi.UUCP (02/14/87)
In article <924@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> lazarus@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew J Lazarus) writes: >>the dumpster and use them to read past messages. (Would any >>outfit be so stupid as to not permanently destroy the key tape? > >Yes, the United States Navy is this stupid. My understanding -- the >newspapers all claimed it was 'classified' -- is that the Walker spy >ring gave the Soviets the old keys. These were, of course, useless There was an article in the paper a while ago about either the Air Force or Navy, I can't remember. Apparently they had several hundred used tapes they no longer needed. They sold them at public auction, complete with classified (unencrypted) data. --robert -- CSNET: robert%jimi.cs.unlv.edu@relay.cs.net UUCP: {akgua,ihnp4,mirror,sdcrdcf}!otto!jimi!robert seismo!unrvax!tahoe!jimi!robert