From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-22 10:19:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc03.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F46507F.7060000@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets? References: <33bfd395.0308190954.5b7e296c@posting.google.com> <6kA0b.5574$q9.318397@read1.cgocable.net> <3F43F1C3.2020806@attbi.com> <7S91b.628$9a2.32928@news20.bellglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc03 1061572743 24.34.139.183 (Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:19:03 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:19:03 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:19:04 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41793 Date: 2003-08-22T17:19:04+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Also, there is a lot to learn from these incidents about > the consequences of not talking to each other :_) As I said, the reasons that the original disconnect occurred were for good and sufficient reasons involving security. As late as the mid-60s, many Eastern-bloc countries were using "war-surplus" Enigma machines for both diplomatic and military encryption, so the British were very unwilling to declassify the information then. And due to an agreement between the US and the UK, the UK had the final say on everything to do with the security of Enigma decryption (Ultra) while the US had similar authority for the Japanese intercepts (PURPLE, RED and others). In the case of the analysis of using electronic digital computers to replace the bombes, the British kept that knowledge extremely closely held, both during WWII and afterwords. -- Robert I. Eachus "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." -- Jacques Chirac, President of France "As far as France is concerned, you're right." -- Rush Limbaugh