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From: nelson_p@apollo.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Long distance monitoring
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Date: 26 Apr 88 15:21:00 GMT
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>> A while back, some 
>>people started deliberately filling their signature files with USSR, 
>>ASSASSIN, HIJACK, etc. etc. etc., with the explicit intention of 
>>swamping any such monitoring device. 

>I've noticed this too, and I've oftened wondered exactly what those
>people were trying to do.  Presumably, they object to the US form of
>government and want to see America infiltrated/weakened/whatever.
>So, to those of you out there who do this: am I right?  Or won't you
>admit to being anti-US?  

 I assume that they're trying to improve the process.  After all,
 REAL spies, terrorists, drug dealers, etc. aren't going to send 
 messages with words like 'submarine', 'hijack', 'cocaine' and so
 forth.  So if the CIA or FBI is stupid enough to monitor words
 like that they *should* get swamped so they'll be forced to think
 about it and do it right!


>(Yes I realize I'm going to get flames about this... I'm expecting
>it.)

 There.  Happy now?

                                            --Peter Nelson