[ILUG] OT - Rainbow series

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:11:16 +0100
  | From: "Andrew Court" <syklops at gmail.com>
  | 
  | Starting a new job in InfoSec on tuesday, and I would get
  | a real kick out of having some of the Rainbow Series books
  | on my desk.  Anyone know where I can get one or some of
  | them in Ireland?

 no, but I've never looked either.

  | Does anyone have one on your desk, just gathering dust?

 I think I've still got an Orange Book, at least,
 maybe also a Yellow and something else (Green?)
 as well, sitting in a box --- SOMEWHERE --- but
 I haven't an fsck where ....  ;-\   (and they'd
 be quite old versions as well.)

  | I know I can write to the NSA and ask them to send me
  | some for only about 30 bucks,

 from Ireland!!?!  unless the NSA(? or did you mean
 NIST?) has joined the real world sometime in the
 last c.10 years, they won't even talk to you when
 they notice yer calling from outside the States.
 (doesn't matter whether or not you are a USAian.)

 when I was doing C2-related work in London, we
 had a helluva time whenever we had to deal with
 those jerks.  (ultimately, we usually had some
 USAians in the States deal with them for us as
 human proxys.)   they (the NSA that is, not NIST
 or our USAians) were not just paranoid, they
 were mind-boggingly freaked-out superstitious
 űber-paranoid.  the USAians who went to see them
 had(?) to supply their SSN (Social Security Number)
 in advance.†  (I won't do into whether or not that
 was legal then or now; suffice it to say it is
 highly contentious.)  I'd _guess_ it'd be even
 worse now with the so-called War on The World,
 er sorry, on Terror.

cheers!
	-blf-

 †   I've no recollection of any attempt by a
    non-USAian to visit them, so I've no what
    they would have done in that case.  (blow
    up an unsuspecting country or something?)

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