Re: Security urban legends

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () cospo osis gov>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 07:31:44AM -0800, Litney, Tom wrote:
> Ok, I have another one for the list.  As I recall last year (could be wrong
> the mind wobbles) the legend was going around that internet spam was really
> spawned by the NSA as a known plain text attack on our encrypted tunnels.

I don't remember hearing that one.  It does occur to me that "The
Internet will have melted down by this time next year" has long since
passed into Legend status.  ;-)

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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