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From: kallis@pen.DEC
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Subject: CETI, Decurity, and the rest ...
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 15:20:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 15:20:30 1985
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As one who once was involved in the space program, I can see some
logic in the restriction.

There may be equipment that, though used in a CETI environment, uses
classoffied hardware.  Some facilities may have a classified component,
even though the particular application isn't.

Case in point:  even though Apollo was a civilian project, you neded a
clearance to work on elements of it.  Same here.

There is a tendency to overclassify things, true.  And there are enough
paranoid types who suspect the government is Holding Back things (UFOs,
structures on moon, Very Close Encounters [>:-)]) that overclassification
looks like an Evil Plot.

On the other hand, just when does something become sensitive?  there's
no easy answer.