NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the Inman Era

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… and notice how long ago this conversation was taking place. Yes, the Inman mentioned is the B. R. Inman that we all know and love. See also the work of another name mentioned in this article … that of Joseph Meyer. Meyer (DoD / NSA) wrote an anonymous paper in which he expressed the idea that electronic tracking devices should be implanted on folks with criminal backgrounds. Actually his actual idea was even more reprehensible in that what he really suggested was that roughly 50 % of those who came into contact with the criminal justice system should be implanted with a tracking device regardless of whether they were convicted of a crime or not.

https://cryptome.org/2021/04/Joseph-Meyer-IEEE-1977.pdf

… on occasion some interesting things pop up on this site.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/05/newly-unclassified-nsa-document-on-cryptography-in-the-1970s.html

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Why am I not surprised at any of this, nor that it would be the NSA in favor of such a “beast system”?Meyer gives away the game: it’s not about law, or justice; it’s solely about power, and control. Nor am I surprised about Inman’s role here, as highly connected as he is to “anti-gravity” projects (e.g., through the “Bell” related SAIC corp) and other black projects research. Before one can role out the “alternative energy” one has to have the proliferation problem solved, and that - from their point of view - can only be solved by imposition of a total surveillance state. Thanks for the post.

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… you’re welcome. Glad it was of interest … and hopefully of future use. I try. :slight_smile:

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And that’s why we already have more than 30K SpaceX satellites watching every single move of ours,