Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!luth!loglule!jarl From: jarl@loglule.se (Jarl Sandberg) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian Keywords: Soviet, UUCP network Message-ID: <643@jurgen.loglule.se> Date: 7 Dec 88 08:12:08 GMT References: <192@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <2326@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7961@dasys1.UUCP> <758@quintus.UUCP> <5095@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Reply-To: jarl@loglule.SE (Jarl Sandberg) Organization: TeleLOGIC AB, Lulea, Sweden Lines: 25 Is it not time to stop the whole discussion about Soviet access to Usenet, different spy/counter spy organizations and start talking computers. By the way, isn't the best way of making KBG/GRU incapable of any move to drown them with data, incomplete data, garbage data and so on. They won't be able to find the useful information since it is hidden by a lot of irrelevant data. I belive that this is the ghost of all intelligence sevices, not the absence of data, but rather too much data. And after all, if three can't keep a secret, how can anyone think that anything published in Usenet can be called secret? I think the whole discussion is aiming at the wrong target since Usenet is a open INTERNATIONAL network and can't be used to contain secrets. Second, if you can't stop soviet access to the net, what the use discussing it in such a way that the USSR can observe anything you say (i.e. USENET). Third, which topics seems to be to most popular on the net? For me it seems to be that the topics the Soviet "really" can gain vital information about is if Tom Bombadill is a maia or what ever. --jarl Standard disclaimer applied here.