Re: Australia Admits to Echelon

[Cipher <cipher@mindspring.com>]

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On  11/8/99, Me Uh, K. logged on  and ended up relaying this through a
little-known Microsoft open mail server to the North Korean Central
Committee who in turn forwarded it to me:
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> if you're going to go to all the trouble of
> circumventing the law, wouldn't it just be easier to
> outright break it, and not get caught?
>
> I mean, c'mon, we ARE talking about the Federal
> Government here, who've never been famous for being
> law-abiding, and who've REALLY never been famous for
> doing unnessecary work.

I understand, but they have legal types advising them.  Where do you think
terms like *Plausible Deniability* come from...

Reardless of the logic, this _is_ the way it's done.

Cipher



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