Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unh!pss
From: pss@unh.UUCP (Paul S. Sawyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR International Computer Club (was: Information on the ICC)
Summary: I must be missing the secret information...
Message-ID: <890@unh.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 21:48:10 GMT
References: <10127@well.UUCP> <1315@orion.cf.uci.edu> <810@afit-ab.arpa> <2844@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <2844@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 
> 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.
> -- 

Of course.  And what is there on the net that WE can see/read/use, that would
not be obtainable by THEM in another manner anyway?  rec.music?  Emacs?

Future net application:  "...and are you, or anyone you are interconnected
with, now, or have you ever been, interconnected with anyone interconnected
with the Soviet Union?..."

What about leading by example?  What about the possibility that an enemy
does not have to remain an enemy forever?  Though I have not thoroughly
convinced myself that that applies to the USSR, I would rather "trust but
verify" and maybe learn something from their presence on the net.  What on
the net might BENEFIT them or HARM us more than vice versa if they are
"officially" connected?  

Why are we acting like we say they act, when they are starting to SAY they
want to act like we said we wanted them to...?

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