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From: samlb@well.UUCP (Samuel B. Bassett)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Secrecy Shibboleth
Message-ID: <4254@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 16:28:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 16:28:31 1987
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Keywords: paranoia


	***SIGH***

	Are all current (and ex-) spooks Professional Paranoids?  Must be an
occupational disease.
	I decided a number of years ago that there probably _wasn't_ a
conspiracy (name your favorite...), since, if there _were_, the world would
operate much more efficiently and rationally than it in fact does.
	Strange noises on the phone are as likely to be sheer incompetence or
outdated equipment at the phone company than deliberate listening . . .
-- 
Sam'l Bassett -- Semantic Engineering for fun & profit.
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