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Re: NSA CAN BREAK PGP ENCRYPTION

#3419
From: thf2@kimbark.uch
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.
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