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Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics
Sensors & Components

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> From: Bruce Toback [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 11:49 AM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Friday Humor: Maxwell Smart lives
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>
> Hi all,
>
> The following is from the June 30, 2000 edition of _Science_
> (<http://www.sciencemag.org>):
>
>   Foreign spies apparently find traveling U.S. nuclear scientists
>   irresistable. A congressional report released this week details
>   dozens of sometimes clumsy attempts by foreign agents to obtain
>   nuclear secrets, from offering scientists prostitutes to prying
>   off the backs of their laptop computers. ...
>
>   ... There were... reports of tampering with personal equipment,
>   including riffling through and then locking a previously un-
>   locked briefcase, turning on a previously shut-down copmputer,
>   and trying to pry open the back of a laptop.
>
>   Some of the incidents were almost comical. One researcher who
>   telephoned his wife and chatted about her upcoming plans to
>   play the game bingo at a social gathering was later asked in
>   the hotel bar about those plans. The next day, a host asked
>   him, "What is Bingo?" Some researchers even used the suspected
>   eavesdropping to their advantage. After talking to the hotel
>   walls about the desire for an extra roll of toilet paper or
>   a television set, two scientists were pleasantly surprised to
>   see the items appear within hours. Other episodes included
>   "maids" interrupting a meeting to move potted plants closer
>   to visiting U.S. scientists, and a technician who entered
>   a conference room to change the tape in recorders previously
>   hidden behind a wall. ...
>
> There's more in the article, and still more, apparently, in the GAO
> report, but it's too racy for a serious and family-oriented technical
> mailing list like this one. It should suffice to summarize
> the material
> by noting that Henry Kissinger was apparently correct when he
> stated that
> power is the best aphrodisiac.
>
> -- Bruce
>
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