[Spooks] NS schedules from ENIGMA2000

[✇ KC2TTK]

Perhaps it's the afterglow of having attended the HOPE X conference, but I
feel the need to contribute on this topic:

(1) Information will inevitably out.

Some time ago I wrote here a little ditty on the fine line between security
and obscurity - not a great one, I confess, but it was good on-the-spot
imporvisation.  There is a parallel: inevitably, encrypted communications
can be broken.

(2) Information goes where it is wanted.

Not necessarily where you want it to go.  The schpiel I wrote ended up on
places I never expected (or wanted in some cases).

(3) Attribution is information.

Occasionally I'll quote others without attribution.  In most cases it's
because the need to communicate information is greater than my ability to
identify the source(s).  I try my best to identify such information by
"quoting" (QED).

(4)  Plagiarism is fought by publication.

Here's where things get dicey.  Yes, Enigma2000, Numbers & Oddities, et
al.  and deserve recognition.  In many cases, recognition is the sole
remuneration for one's efforts.  When less-than-honorable people repackage
information as their own, there is no effective way to fight it save for
the true source to continue publishing.

Eventually, as more people exchange the core information they will also be
exchanging ancillary information.  Thus, while E2K scheds. may be
regugitated undesireably, the fact that plagiarism is taking place will
also pass along the grapevine.

This will not necessarily prevent plagiarism in the future, but it will
make the end user aware of authentic origination.

(5) You can choose your friends.

This is probably going to be misinterpreted so please read this next
section at face value.

Yes, I did ask to join Enigma's group, and yes, I was turned down.

Even though no one likes to be rejected, in any society (big/small, in/out,
hip/square, mainstream/underground) it is the group's decision to accept
individuals and, having been accepted, the individual's duty to conform to
the norms in order to continue his/her participation in said group.  To
rail aganst a group due to rejection merely assures future rejection; to
accept makes the decision reversible at a later date.

So, with repect to the "E2K Clique", I look at it this way: things are as
they should be, and "should be" trumps "want to be" any day.

Anyway, the point is to recognize the dilligence we have all put into
numbers stations.  People clearly value the work.  In the end, they will
also come to value the people behind the work.