Mark Thomas + ECHELON?

[Danny O'Brien]

On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 12:01:33PM -0000, Malcolm Hutty wrote:
> > - I can't help but feeling he (or, more likely, a researcher) has been at
> > the list content dregdging up ideas, and maybe I provided some subconcious
> > inspiration, if I was not actually ripped off.
> 
> Well it wasn't me, my involvement was limited to the web site!
> I don't know if anyone at MTCP reads ukcrypto but friends of 
> friends do, maybe your idea just stuck in someone's head.
> I wouldn't think of it as being ripped off, think of it as your idea 
> coming to fruition on TV. Glass is half full and all that.
> 
Mark's been banging on about Menwith Hill for as long as anyone else I
know. Longtime viewers will remember also his Lincolnshire Poacher references
and RSA-in-(n-1)-lines-of-perl in his last series.

As an Official Secret, Menwith Hill info is as close to public domain these
days as you can get... :)

d.

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