Re: Attn: real cryptographers - how safe would you be?
- From: "RR" <newspaper.20.broom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:47:17 GMT
And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch
of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past
but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks,
telescreen programmes, plays, novels -- with every conceivable kind of
information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from
a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to
a Newspeak dictionary. And the Ministry had not only to supply the
multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at
a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat. There was a whole chain
of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama,
and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers
containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational
five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which
were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of
kaleidosco
.
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