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From: greg@nprdc.arpa (Greg Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Keywords: Espionage arpanet
Message-ID: <1119@arctic.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 1 Dec 88 21:27:44 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:
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<< 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
<< that much easier.  While it is true that classified systems are not
<< connected to any network, the system is cross connected to Arpanet, and
<< access to this net is effectively access to Arpanet.  Not good.
<