Any thoughts on this thread? Seems to be a lot of concern about NSA coming out in the open. Call me naive, but I thought everyone knew about them. What do ya'll think?

http://www.michaelhyatt.com/discuss/ubb/Forum35/HTML/000743.html

TIA

-- Just Curious (jnmpow@flash.net), January 31, 2000

Answers

They have definitely changed in recent years, at least in terms of their PR approach. I presented some computer seminars there in the early 70s, and they were as secretive as you would expect them to be -- especially when dealing with an outsider like me who has no security clearances.

I had a chance to visit them again last year, and found that they had transformed themselves into the "friendly NSA". They still behaved carefully, because I still don't have a security clearance, but I'm now told that they have a "company store" where you can buy NSA t-shirts, NSA coffee mugs,

-- (ed@yourdon.com), January 31, 2000.

FWIW, Jim Marrs said on the Art Bell Dreamland program last night that according to a good source of his, the NSA computer system was STILL down.

-- Lurkess (Lurkess@Lurking.Net), January 31, 2000.

More specifically on what, some feel, is coming down the pike?

-- Just Curious (jnmpow@flash.net), February 01, 2000.