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To: TobagoJack who wrote (101167)	6/17/2013 12:18:01 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217588

It's a puzzle why the USA and UK politicians would be surprised and annoyed by Made in China Cyberspace hacking when the USA and UK have obviously been up to their necks in doing the same. Which is not in the slightest surprising. Is anyone actually surprised? Laughable - <The disclosure raises new questions about the boundaries of surveillance by GCHQ and its American sister organisation, the National Security Agency, whose access to phone records and internet data has been defended as necessary in the fight against terrorism and serious crime. > There was no need for such surveillance to find the Boston terrorists because Russia had carefully advised exactly who they were to the USA. Said terrorists had already murdered 3 x Jews but that was too hard for the intelligence of the USA to figure out. Even after the bombings, the USA failed to identify them but with public assistance it was done. Then, the Homeland Security people by the hundred could not locate the seriously injured survivor hiding in a boat after he fled from a shoot up but the property owner did find said terrorist when "cower in place" was lifted after failure by the authoritarian authorities to locate the bloke. Then, it was beyond the ability of the security people to take possession of him without another absurd shoot 'em up. Hopelessly pathetic. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (101167)	6/17/2013 5:59:12 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

Team USA pulled off a great hack against the Japanese at the Washington Naval Conference in the early 1920s. It cost them three battleships, but our Secretary of State flipped out... :o) Herbert Yardley en.wikipedia.org The information the Cipher Bureau provided the American delegation regarding the Japanese government's absolute minimum acceptable battleship requirements was instrumental in getting the Japanese side to agree to a 5:3 ratio instead of the 10:7 ratio the Japanese Navy really wanted. This allowed Japan only 18 battleships to 30 for the U.S. and 30 for Great Britain instead of the 21 battleships Japan desired. This was the height of Yardley's cryptanalytic career. ***** However, it was moral indignation that finally doomed the bureau. When Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover, found out about Yardley and the Cipher Bureau, he was furious and withdrew funding, summing up his argument with "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail". [4] Some believe that Stimson was most offended when Yardley bragged that he could read all traffic of the Vatican, for it was after this remark Stimson turned and left the room.