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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

230.0. "The N.S.A. and Digitals Networks." by NEXUS::MORGAN (Walk in Balance...) Sun Dec 07 1986 15:27

    I remember a couple weeks ago someone was lobbying Congress to pass
    laws to enable the National Security Agency to monitor networks
    to find technology leaks to the Eastern block.
    
    o	Is Digital doing anything to foil technology leaks?  A simple
    yes or no will do for this question, and 
    
    o	If the N.S.A. is monitoring the networks it will have access
    to all the technology it doesn't presently have.  In short it will
    get that technology for _free_ without paying one red cent for it.
    After all, how are we going to know whether the N.S.A. is using our
    technology or not?  Are you going to ask them??
    
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         Moscow, Witworth, Xenon, Zygote and NetParty with Ivan.  
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230.1uh...BRAHMS::DEROSAWell... here we are.Sun Dec 07 1986 15:381
    What's that pretty picture at the end of your note all about?
230.2Explaination of Pretty Picture..NEXUS::MORGANWalk in Balance...Sun Dec 07 1986 17:5320
    
    Well if the N.S.A. and other "security agencies" are going to scan all
    out going data from networks in the U.S.A. for illegial technology
    transactions and terrorist action then maybe we should load up their
    scan ques and be sure they earn our tax dollars. In otherwords they
    should find  another way to check on illegial tranactions besides
    violating the privacy of private nets. 
    
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         Falsified, Gopher, Hit Squad, Inoperative, Justification,
         Kilo, Laser, Micro, Neutron, Octet, Pico, Que, Restricted
         Access, Secret Plans, Terrain Following, UCCCP, Vax in
         Moscow, Witworth, Xenon, Zygote and NetParty with Ivan.  
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230.3VMSINT::ROBERTSun Dec 07 1986 23:4012
    RE: *.* by NEXUS::MORGAN in *::*.NOTE
    
    I've seen this in at least a half dozen of your notes today.
    I'd say the 600+ character byline is more likely to clog up
    our disks than NSA computing capacity.
    
    And it of questionable appropriateness for Digital networks
    and notefiles.
    
    We got the point.  I think you can turn if off now.
    
    Thanks, g
230.4So what...ENUF::GASSMANMon Dec 08 1986 10:3814
    Several months ago, there was something in the papers about increased
    pressure on international corporate networks to make themselves
    more secure... the person behind the pressure was a guy named
    Poindexter.(SP?), the same guy making shadey deals with Iran.
    Now that he is out, the pressure might be lower... 
    
    Where there might be some merit to thinking the ruskies might get
    some info about DEC by listening to our bits from the sky, reality
    is that they already have most of our SDC software for the many
    vaxs that are running in the USSR.  We might even slow them down
    by giving them some of our field test stuff...
    
    bill