From: karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 16:05:21 PST
To: hkhenson@cup.portal.com
Subject: Re: Updated/corrected posting
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>*Anyone* with a grudge (and access to this kind of stuff) can send you 
>a package in the mail and tip off the postal inspectors.  Short of the 
>obvious (don't make enemies!) how can you protect yourself from this 
>kind of attack?

This sounds like the standard KGB practice to frame "spies". Have an
agent posing as a dissident ask you to carry a letter to the
West. When it changes hands, pounce. Then conduct a show trial
"proving" that "secret" information changed hands.

I'm seeing fewer and fewer differences between the present-day USA and
the former USSR.

Phil