Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!sunybcs!kitty!larry
From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian
Summary: Nonsense about "sensitive information"...
Keywords: soviet, usenet
Message-ID: <2803@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 05:05:04 GMT
References: <5569@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 25

In article <5569@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) writes:
> Get real guys! No one is going to obtain any sensitive information through
> the public net - and if you don't want to help a perfectly ordinary Soviet
> citizen with everyday problems go see the shrink about your paranoia!

	This is absolutely true!  My organization has been on the Net for
over four years now, during which time I have read virtually every newsgroup
and article which could conceivably contain "sensitive" information.  With
the exception of a few snatches of AT&T UNIX source code, I have never
seen anything which by any stretch of the imagination even comes close to
being militarily "sensitive" (or "company confidential", for that matter).

	For those readers who are naive enough to feel that any Net articles
may be "sensitive", go visit your library and examine a few copies of
periodicals such as "Defense Electronics" or "Microwave Systems News".
Compare THAT material which is freely in the public domain with the details
given in any Net article about any defense-related topic.

	I am neither in favor of, nor opposed to any Net connection with the
Soviet Union, but I feel compelled to make the above point.

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