On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:37:54AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwarded: > > >So now the NSA's secret is out. The Iranians have undoubtedly changed > >their encryption machines, and the NSA has lost its source of Iranian > >secrets. But little else is known. Who told Chalabi? Only a few > >people would know this important U.S. secret, and the snitch is > >certainly guilty of treason. > > Someone (half-)remembered reading the Crypto AG story in the Baltimore Sun > several years ago, bragged to Chalabi that the US had compromised Iranian > crypto, and the story snowballed from there. The story could have started out > with a loquacious (Sun-reading) cab driver for all we know. Some reports have [...]
Well, most cabbies in Baltimore that I would encounter were too busy doing drugs or threatening passengers to be reading the Sun regularly, but who knows? -J
