This is the best piece of news I've read in years!

[Sailor]

Spy ring mastermind John Walker dies in N.C. prison

John A. Walker Jr., the mastermind who for years operated one of America’s most devastating spy rings out of Norfolk, has died.

Walker, 77, was fewer than nine months away from his expected release from federal prison in Butner, N.C. He had been sentenced in 1986 to two life terms, plus 10 years, but his actual prison stay was to have been much shorter because of federal parole guidelines at the time.

He died Thursday, according to prison officials. He had suffered health issues in recent years, including throat cancer.

More here:
hamptonroads.com/2014/08/spy-ring-mastermind-john-walker-dies-nc-prison#comment-1823811

Goodbye asshole. Hope you don't enjoy your eternity in Hell.

According to some (Larry Niven included) there is a special level in Hell designed for traitors, turncoats and betrayers. It's cold there, liquid hydrogen cold. May he never again know warmth.

To me there is one glaring error in the story ... Walker was never a Cryptologist or Cryptologic Technician. I was a Cryptologic Technician (electronic intel community.) He was a Radioman (communicator) both as an enlisted and later as a Warrant Officer. His duties allowed him access to cryptoGRAPHIC materials.

[warrior1972]

Yeah. MAY 1985.


I was on a mountaintop in South Korea, casually eating lunch. My immediate supervisor came in the dining hall, white as a sheet (I never use that expression lightly. I've only seen it three times: The nun who came into our classroom when I was in the seventh grade to tell us John Kennedy had been shot, the look on everybody's face when I drove into work and found out about 9/11, and that day in 1985.)

We had received a Flash Override message to change every single encryption code immediately.


Reason: John Walker.

Ever talk to a Vietnam vet who swears the North Vietnamese "knew we were coming"?

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WAS THE REASON WHY.

THEY DID KNOW.

Basically, OUR MOST SECURE COMMUNICATIONS WERE TRANSPARENT FOR 18 YEARS.

If somebody had given me a gun, I would have shot him myself and would not have lost so much as thirty seconds of sleep over it.

God only knows how many lives this bastard took.

I hope the devil's got him in a twenty foot cast iron skillet with no grease.

Rot in hell, motherfucker.

[101ABN]

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[Sailor]

Aug 29, 2014 20:18:26 GMT -8 warrior1972 said:

Yeah. MAY 1985.


I was on a mountaintop in South Korea, casually eating lunch. My immediate supervisor came in the dining hall, white as a sheet (I never use that expression lightly. I've only seen it three times: The nun who came into our classroom when I was in the seventh grade to tell us John Kennedy had been shot, the look on everybody's face when I drove into work and found out about 9/11, and that day in 1985.)

We had received a Flash Override message to change every single encryption code immediately.


Reason: John Walker.

Ever talk to a Vietnam vet who swears the North Vietnamese "knew we were coming"?

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WAS THE REASON WHY.

THEY DID KNOW.

Basically, OUR MOST SECURE COMMUNICATIONS WERE TRANSPARENT FOR 18 YEARS.

If somebody had given me a gun, I would have shot him myself and would not have lost so much as thirty seconds of sleep over it.

God only knows how many lives this bastard took.

I hope the devil's got him in a twenty foot cast iron skillet with no grease.

Rot in hell, motherfucker.

I remember bro. I was in Caron when the word came through. Even though (in theory at least) the S.O.B. never had access to the encryption keys to the Intel Community's backchannel comms we were directed to switch to the reserve keying materials IMMEDIATELY. We learned the reason about a day later.

If it had been possible I'd have taken a shot at him too or (prevailing feeling in the ship) had him hoisted to the yardarm by the neck, no drop, just slow strangulation in the "finest naval tradition."

He was due for parole review in just over 1 year. Thank you God that he was never able to draw another breath as a free man. Not very Christian of me I know but forgiveness is God's job, I'm not God.