KYU-5, KG-84, KY-54 encryption devices
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Wed Feb 28 10:26:56 PST 2001
At 12:06 PM -0600 2/28/01, Aimee Farr wrote:
>Tim May said:
>> Search engines are the best way to answer such questions. A quick
>> search with Google turns up numerous hits on these devices. (I
>> suggest adding a narrowing word like "encryption" after the name of
>> the device.)
>>
>> One such hit gives a full description of one of these devices:
>>
>> http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/crypto/kg84.html
>>
>
>Really? Well, damn. I'll have to try out that Google-thing sometime....
Yes, you've said similar things in the past.
And yet you ask very basic, easily-answered questions, questions
best-answered by spending a minute or two entering words into a
search engine of your choice. (In the age of the Web, a page which
has photos, descriptions, etc. of such a device is worth a lot more
than someone giving vaguely-remembered comments.)
>I can't figure out if you're irked by amateurish elicitation tactics, or if
>you're trying to give me lessons in how to do better.
We used to hear the expression "Look it up."
When a child asks what a word means, "look it up."
When someone asks where Borneo is located, "look it up."
When a list member asks what a KG-84 is, "look it up."
--Tim May
--
Timothy C. May tcmay at got.net Corralitos, California
Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go
Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
More information about the Testlist
mailing list