IP: Stolen nuclear secrets blamed on email

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:35:08 -0800
> To: farber () cis upenn edu (Dave Farber)
> From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
> Subject: Stolen nuclear secrets blamed on email
>
> Someone just sent this to me:
>
> > In yesterdays Seattle Times there is an article entitled "Clinton aide says
> > that China benefited from stolen secrets".  It further states that,
> "...Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whose department oversees the U.S.
> > nuclear-weapons program, admitted that the administration has not been
> > able to control the email that scientists at Los Alamos send to their
> > foreign counterparts-a suspected source of some leaks..."
>
>
> <sigh> The implication seems to be that email is somehow the cause of the
> leaks -- rather than the DOE's loose-lipped nuclear-weapons scientists.
> Anyone want to bet that this won't be used as yet another lame guv'ment
> excuse to police, surveil and control net content in this, the former "Land
> of the free and home of the brave"?
>
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