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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum)
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Subject: Re: A challenge for those who believe that the network has security
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 09:55:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 09:55:32 1987
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	It is simply not "efficient" to assume that the net is not secure
and to track back the origin of every article that a reader has grounds to
suspect as false.

	I'd say the best approach is to remember that usenet is not society
with hard and fast rules, but rather an anarchy in which things like faked
postings can happen. If people are aware that there's a potential problem,
maybe they'll have enough sense to be sceptical when something odd shows up.

	--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic