Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!jjc From: jjc@cisunx.UUCP (Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet Message-ID: <14036@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 01:46:51 GMT References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: jjc@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter) Organization: U. of Pittsburgh, Computing and Information Sys.(Computer Center) Lines: 30 In article <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ajdenner@athena.mit.edu (Alexander J Denner) writes: > I do not think this would be a very good idea. Now that the Soviets >do not already have access to American networks (ARPANET, etc.). (I am >saying that I am sure the KGB intercepts as much internet information as >they can.) Although I have nothing against the Russin people, the Soviets >are NOT our friends. The Soviet KGB has an immense information gathering Can you say "N-S-A"? I thought you could. >network in this country, why make it easier for them to tune into >western scientific thought? Andrei Sakahrov has just said that theI really think that this type of attitude will only make this situation worse. I think that a link to the Soviet Union would help our relationship much more than hurt it, and it's not like they would be seeing secret stuff or stuff that they wouldn't be able to obtain from other sources. What would stop them from setting up a UUCP site here in the US and feed all the "secrets" and "western technology" now? jeff -- Jeffrey J. B. Carpenter, University of Pittsburgh, Computer Center USMAIL: 600 Epsilon Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238 jjc@cisunx.UUCP | AT&T 1 412 624 6424 | JJC@PITTVMS.BITNET JJC@VMS.CIS.PITTSBURGH.EDU