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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.143539.16559@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:35:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.025428.3297@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
- > Oh, good! Read it in the paper: must be true. Do you believe
- >the bit about the aliens backing Perot's candidacy that I read in the
- >Enquirer, too?
- Somewhere between believing everything you read and giving
- the Washington Post the same credibility as the Enquirer
- there is a happy medium. Mr. Ranum I think you are a few
- iterations short of hitting that happy medium. ;-)
-
- >The sovs were too professional and too closed-mouthed to give
- >out information like that, and if they knew, the fact that they knew
- >would be information they wouldn't want to reveal.
- This is a plausible argument. Sadly, many people will
- not get this far because of the hyperbole in the first sentence.
- Honestly, the only thing worse than believing anything because you
- read it in the paper is believing nothing because you read it
- in the paper.
-
-
- smg
-