Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR International Computer Club (was: Information on the ICC)
Message-ID: <2844@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 22 Jan 89 14:32:53 GMT
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> This should give the physical security guys nightmares.  I won't even 
> mention the notion of remotely triggerable viruses, etc.  I wonder how 
> long defense contractors (not to mention the rest of the arpa side 
> of the house) will stay connected once the Soviet Union gets on...

As far as anyone can tell, they could be on right now. They could certainly
afford a uunet account, and there's no way that uunet could tell that a site
with an innocuous name wasn't really a soviet operation. If any security guys
are disturbed by an official soviet connection, then they're suffering from
a critical failure of imagination.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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