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Article #3419Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION
From: thf2@kimbark.uch
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 12:42
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 12:42
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In article <064303Z02121993@anon.penet.fi> an54588@anon.penet.fi writes: > A lot of people think that PGP encryption is unbreakable and that the >NSA/FBI/CIA/MJ12 cannot read their mail. This is wrong, and it can be a deadly >mistake. In Idaho, a left-wing activist by the name of Craig Steingold was >arrested _one day_ before he and others wee to stage a protest at government >buildings; the police had a copy of a message sent by Steingold to another >activist, a message which had been encrypted with PGP and sent through E-mail. Damn! After I sent him all those encrypted postcards, and this happens to him. >Members of the boards of Novell, Microsoft, >Borland, AT&T and other companies were persuaded into giving the order for the >modification (each ot these companies' boards contains at least one Trilateral >Commission member or Bilderberg Committee attendant). > > It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it. >The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation", >in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The >result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above >2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC >with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into >itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler >is older than from 1992. > >Distribute and reproduce this information freely. Do not alter it. You're MIS$ING crucial CAPITALIZATION. -- ted frank | "Danger, Vicki Robinson, Danger!" -- Twiki the Robot in 'Lost the u of c | in Space,' a television show clearly superior to Star Trek. law school | Tell your site: "I want my a.t.f.t^3!" kibo#=0.5 | Standard disclaimers apply
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