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From: patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Summary: Communicate worldwide
Keywords: Espionage arpanet
Message-ID: <7932@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 14:27:24 GMT
References: <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2672@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <252@blake.acs.washington.edu> <948@vsi.COM>
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In article <948@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>
>> I do _not_ think Soviet access to Usenet is needed or justifiable.  As
>> someone else here pointed out, we do not need any more KGB access to 
>> this or any other net.  It simply makes their intelligence gathering
>
>How does anybody know that the Soviets aren't polling (say) my
>machine?  There are so many machines in the world, with so many
 
If access to computer networks is so vitally important
then I just have to wonder why George Bush and Oliver North
didn't think of selling modems to the Ayatollah instead of
arms *sigh*
 
My grandparents left the Kiev and Minsk because ...
they wanted to travel the world ;-)

 
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