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From: france@unc.UUCP (Robert France)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: RE: Russia on the Net
Message-ID: <7083@unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 00:20:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 00:20:58 1984
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The USSR without vaxen?  USENet a secure environment?  Who's the April fool
now?

Anyone who seriously believes that their communications on the nets are not
easily monitored by (a) partisan agents, (b) domestic government `security'
groups, or (c) junior high school students should carefully reconsider the
state and structure of their net.  Not that I believe that (a) or (b) are
true -- who would want to monitor this much drivel?  On the other hand, the
thought that USENet communications are in any way more secure than ham radio
has, I fear, been shown time and time again to be in vain.

Still, it would be nice to believe that various authoritarian regimes Who Shall
Remain Nameless were wasting their machine cycles on us.  Sort of gives you
that warm, looked-after feeling.

					Sayonara,

						Robert

						france@unc.UUCP