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Article #73389official editor of the KGB
From: Eric A. Pearce
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1991 14:31
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1991 14:31
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>From THE ECONOMIST, 14 September 1991, p. 106:
Nor were the "secrets" the hackers encountered as scintillating as
the press supposed. Asked to look over the list of software
purchased by the KGB, one American security expert concluded:
"The Russians were rooked." The KGB paid several thousand
dollars for a word processor, called GNU Emacs, which is widely
distributed free in western universities.
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