Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:33:21 08/24/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 16:05:10, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On August 24, 2005 at 15:23:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 24, 2005 at 14:04:00, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>On August 24, 2005 at 13:50:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>It's been a 1-way street. >>> >>>It is not quite as 1-way as it seems when you are only reading the CCC >>>and the Winboard forum. In private communication, at least some of the >>>top programmers are willing to reveal a few small secrets. >> >>It would be hard for me to read private emails unless I worked for the FBI or >>something. :) > >I think you mean NSA :) No. The FBI has some sort of "mail hawking system". Runs at all major internet nodes and supposedly grabs every last email passing thru, which gets most of them (not the inter-university stuff, and so forth) but stuff that goes across the country or farther... No doubt the NSA does their own part. The FBJ system had a name, but I simply don't remember any longer. It was a hot topic 10 years ago or so... > > >> >> >>> >>>>And as I said many times over the past few years, if >>>>enough amateur authors get together to share ideas, before long the commercial >>>>programs will be no better than the best amateurs, and it won't be long after >>>>that until they are actually worse. We might be beginning to see this happen >>>>today. >>> >>>I would say it has been happening for years already. That's why the gap >>>between the amateurs and the commercials keeps shrinking. >>> >>>Tord
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