Re: Excellent, Mr. Paul Tiger

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:50:48 -0700, you wrote:

>Rockwell was the chip maker for many modems of that era. Signetics had a
>license to produce similar chips from Rockwell, but they weren't used that
>much. National Semiconductor had similar functionality, but didn't sell
>well.
>The last time that I played with any modems in a lab setting was in 1997. I
>have no clue what is going on these days.
>
>I once listened to a lecture on telecom security at NIST from a NSA engineer
>who stated that the only secure computer was one that was set in a block of
>concrete at the bottom of the ocean.

The NSA guy was incorrect.

A computer at the bottom of the ocean in a block of concrete is also
insecure.

Seriously, one argument about the inability of the government to control
security is that submarines are known to have a lot of marijuana on board.
If one cannot control access in such an environment, then no environment is
secure.

We have to live with that fact and hope that the only way to transparent
elections is that each step of the process is open and transparent.  Poll
watchers need access and not 20-foot limits to observation.

> At the time I was amused. No longer.

You grow, you learn.

>
>SG

Ralph Shnelvar