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Army Plonks (fwd)
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> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:30:38 -0400
> From: John Young <[email protected]>
> Subject: Army Plonks
> Now that the terrified US Army has axed its Web sites, and
> NSA and several other mil sites seem inaccessible and
> "temporarily unavailable" this morning, could this portend
> a dual-use of the Internet, a closed one for porkbarrell mil and
> secret gov sweethearts and a sappy infotainment one for civilians
> to gameboy infofoolery?
>
> That would be a tri-power-gov implementation of dual-use
> terror-scare to hide perkbellied privileges of natsec obsession.
It's called milnet and it's been in existance ever since about '83. It
occured when ARPA became DARPA. I was working on a DoD project at UT Austin
at the time.
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