Date: Sunday, March 09, 2003 6:24 AM
From: Robert Smith ([email protected])
Subject: Army's Apple Shines in the Desert
Doesn't the Pentagon intel use Mac as the encryption program that has never been broken ("Army's Apple Shines in the Desert," March 8, 2003)? I read that there was a $10K reward in Finland to break into PGP but it was never done.
Meanwhile my XP Presario 6000, despite purchased firewall and Norton Antivirus, picked up the Sobig worm on the Internet, and it could only quarantine it, not repair or eliminate it. Spam -- like the Eveready -- still keeps coming and coming and coming.
In my 15 years in Korea with the Army, and several at Fort Ord and Fort Benning, I was often asked what computer to use. The Army denied us access to Macs, so at my own expense I purchased many. The Army gave me numerous awards as I was always ahead of MS DOS and the Air Force at Osan AFB, Korea, using Macs exclusively in engineering in 1985.
The Army wanted "industry standard," but as I worked in IBM back in 1958, I saw the disadvantages. The Army always kept farriers (horseshoe specialists) and the Cavalry way beyond their functional use.
Robert
Retired Education Specialist Civil Service
U.S. Army
