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...great David-and-Goliath story--humble hackers hoodwink sinister spooks --but the complexity of the subject matter makes Crypto a slow read: encryption algorithms, export regulations and copyright wrangles, all of it crawling with abbreviations (when PKP takes on the NSA over RSA vs. the DSA, don't say we didn't warn you). Levy, the chief technology writer for Newsweek, has also chosen a difficult hero in Whit Diffie. For all his brilliance, the shy, secretive math geek remains a cipher...
Hubbell knew that conversations on the prison phone would be recorded, but that doesn't mean he knew they would be made public. If he had, he would have presumably studded his conversations with rude jokes about Kenneth Starr and how simple it had been to hoodwink the independent counsel's office on a plea-bargain agreement. He certainly didn't know they would be made public as edited by Burton's chief investigator, David N. Bossie, who presumably picked up his notion of fair play partly from his old colleague Floyd Brown, the creator of the Willie Horton campaign...
First, we can start by being informed--by reading newspapers, watching news programs and debating current issues--so that no politicians will pull the wool over our eyes or hoodwink us into voting for a program that is contrary to our interests...
...popular peso rescue plan was hard aground in Congress. A key Democratic senator, Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, this morning attacked Clinton's $40 billon loan guarantee proposal as a "billionaires' bailout," saying Mexico is unlikely to pay it back. "Let's cut out this nonsense of trying to hoodwink the American people," Hollings told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, where Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) ignored GOP leaders more sympathetic to the plan by giving its opponents a daylong public forum to gripe. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin touted the IMF loan -- largest in the organization's 51-year...
...skating on thin ice, at times literally. But to grownups, Henry appears so harmless, and Mark himself has been acting so unstable since his mother's death, that no one will listen to him. Will Mark wrench the scales from the world's eyes, or will Henry hoodwink humanity with his sheep's clothing...