Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!isishq!doug
From: doug@isishq.UUCP (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: long-distance monitoring
Message-ID: <40.22719279@isishq.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 05:16:09 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 221/162 - ISIS International, Waterloo ON
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 UN>From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) 
 
 UN>In newspaper accounts of some trials, there are cryptic referen 
 UN>ces to the sources of tips, or to how the government arrived 
 UN>at a 
 UN>lucky guess about what the bad guys were up to.  If the NSA 
 UN>*were* dropping hints in the feds' ears, wouldn't there be 
 UN>various and sundry pressures, and alibis, to camouflage such 
 UN>a 
 UN>role ? 
 UN> 
 
One thing's  for sure: if someone hired me to operate a secure computer 
communication link I sure would't send any traffic through usenet in the 
clear :-) -- I'd use massive encryption at the very least so those poor 
little crays would have to spend at least an hour per word to figure out 
what I was saying. 
 
I'm much more inclined to suspect that voice lines are monitored. After 
all, if the NSA wants to know what's going on in Usenet they only need 
to get a usenet feed -- and  I imagine they already have one. 
 
Besides, all the *really* good stuff is in the can.* newsgroups that 
never cross any borders :-) :-) 
 
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