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From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:40:59 -0400
So if you drive to the hospital in Reston, VA where my grandfather Moe died last week, you pass a giant building guarded by bored cops, with no sign anywhere nearby. As you pass it on the Fairfax Parkway, it instead flies a giant American flag in the parking lot, the mark of another filament in the Sauron's Eye of Intelligence. After a while in the system, you can recognize it everywhere in the world it has placed an outpost. In any case, Moe was in the Army in WWII and when he got out he went to Cooper Union and then Berkeley and then did a lot of work in Electronic Warfare at RCA, building the beginnings of Sauron's Eye with vaccum tubes. Afterwards he went to work sending up satellites that did "nothing" under several Special Access Programs at SAIC. A bit later after that he took the time to teach me assembly language and how to drive stick shift, only one of which I still use to this day. Honestly, I think the traditional super-mechanized SIGINT that Moe helped build in a way died with him. I've thought this for a decade, since you can see the curves of complexity for protocol stacks stretching upwards to infinity far past the limits of parsing and understanding it. And the tide has turned on encryption finally - Google putting PGP into Gmail is going to make it so you can communicate with even your lawyers securely. But Sauron's Eye will survive, perhaps at least slightly because of Immunity's efforts. I don't want to mess with his legacy, after all. :> -dave
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