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From: gast@CS.UCLA.EDU (David Gast)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Using news for internal communications
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Date: 28 Dec 90 22:00:16 GMT
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Nick Szabo writes:

> Several have pointed out the lack of security in news.  IMHO this may be
> a feature, not a bug...

I don't understand everything the author is trying to say, so my 
comments may be slightly off, but ...

Mail is not secure either.  For example, any user who can become root
on his machine can usually send mail under any name that he wishes.
(I said usually because there are exceptions).  Even if you cannot
become root, there are well known, previously published methods of
faking mail addresses.

David Gast