Re: [TSCM-L] Re: Feds move to include backdoor in all software and hardware

From: <d..._at_geer.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:13:50 -0500

jmo..._at_usa.net writes:
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 |
 | Trivia time. The original quote (for any that may care) is:
 |
 | Sed quis custodiet ispos custodes?
 | Satires, VI, line 347
 | Juvenal, C. 100 C.E.
 |


I consulted a Latin scholar as to what was
the context of the above. Herein the reply:


>
> Satire VI is a screed against marriage, and goes on for pages about
> the terrible licentiousness of the modern Roman woman, how there's
> no chastity any more, etc etc. It goes into considerable graphic
> detail, most of which can't be printed in a family newspaper.
> (Proving once again that the real motivation for a good classical
> education was to be able to read all the naughty bits in Juvenal
> and Horace). But here, in translation, is the context of the famous
> quote:
>
> I know the advice my old friends would give - "Lock her up and
> bar the doors." But who is to keep guard over the guards
> themselves? They get paid in common coin to forget their
> mistress's randy little adventures; both sides have something
> to hide. Any sensible wife, planning ahead, will first turn
> the heat on them.
>


So, for all who say "Who watches the watchers?"
keep this little cultural backdrop in mind.

--dan
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