>We all just looked at him like something was deeply wrong with him. Little did I know that years later I would read this comment and know the truth. tptacek,

>We all just looked at him like something was deeply wrong with him. Little did I know that years later I would read this comment and know the truth. tptacek, my sarcasm detector has been broken from birth, is this sarcasm? >(Schneier wrote about NSA spying. In Applied Cryptography. In the 1990s.) Schneier, Bamford, and Cryptome and some others (Prouty) were the origins of my knowledge of the NSA stuff since the 90's as well. At the time not many people listened and we were constantly derided as tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists... of course it would be logically fallacious to extrapolate that makes me right about another subject, (hence understandable if your comment is sarcasm), but I think it's worth remembering in context of similar claims of government technological overreach.