Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ucsd!nprdc!greg 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> Sender: news@nprdc.arpa Reply-To: greg@nprdc.arpa (Greg Reynolds) Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego Lines: 32 In article <948@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: < << 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. <