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From: smith%eri.DECnet@MGHCCC.HARVARD.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Security and Info-Vax
Message-ID: <8702140532.AA07054@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 16:11:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 16:11:00 1987
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Re the recent stuff on students reading Info-VAX.  My own right to access
the ARPA Internet is a tad tenuous so my own understanding of the ground
rules and assumptions may be offbase.  But my own assumption is that 
putting something out on Info-VAX is not too far removed from broadcasting
it and/or publishing it.  "I shot a message into the air, it fell to earth
I know not where."  

Did anybody check my credentials before adding me to Info-VAX?  Am I
_really_ mild-mannered Smith (hah! a likely name) or am I Bytemaster
Syskruncher, the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main?

A student population is certainly, in my judgement, a group that is likely
to contain individuals who are willing and able to make bad use of security
related information.  But it seems to me that common sense would suggest
that if you want to keep stuff secret, you don't post it to Info-VAX.

Dan Smith	smith%eri.decnet@mghccc.harvard.edu
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