[Discussing the shortage of IT workers as of 1998 on E-mail]
Shlomi Fish to Omer Zak: "Even the NSA doesn’t have enough programmers. But it is not likely that they will have more and that’s because ‘Summerschool at the NSA’ may might as well be the name of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s next movie."
Omer Zak to Shlomi Fish: "And as opposed to ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ it is going to be scary."
Kilmo: why would you like to make fun of the crypto world ? ;) The NSA does know what you did last summer. And by putting this on the web, they know that you know.
Which may lead to interesting philosophical issues. BTW, in a conference I was attending we were given a sticker saying: "NSA - free email backup".
They still have some issue with the retrieval procedures, but besides of that - they are quite a trusted service.
Shlomi Fish: In my case, I think every random Joe can learn a lot about me. Even if he’s not in Google or the NSA or whatever.
Kilmo: Yep. But this is a world-wide service that they offer. (Along with several co-operations, like MI5/6).
| Author | Shlomi Fish and Kilmo |
| Work | Aphorisms Collection |
| Published | 2008-07-08 |