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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The worm; Who blabbed to the media
Message-ID: <10892@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 27 Nov 88 20:03:01 GMT
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Apart from minor problems with the original posting (the matter was
indeed of public interest, since it affected a government-operated
net; coverage in the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, the AP, and
NPR (at least) was as accurate and complete as could be expected from
general-audience publications), it's worth mentioning that one reason
you can't keep things like this secret is that there are reporters on
Usenet.  Yup, genuine ones, for mainstream papers, too, not just the
trade press.

But that's all besides the point; I frankly don't see any reason not
to tell the media.