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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 00:09:27 PST
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Reply-To: <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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Return-Path: <cocot@osc.versant.com>
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Message-ID: <surfpunk-0063@SURFPUNK.Technical.Journal>
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (qnatrebhf unpxre mvar)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0063] DIGEST: SJG, PGP poem, comp lit, nikita, flame, jail
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| Please unsubscribe me from this list.
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| Due to the label "dangerous hacker zine" I was under the
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| impression that this list concerned serious hacking info. I
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| didn't realize that it was so comedy oriented.
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I had hoped for a more substantive write up on the SJG trial ... anyone
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got one? In the meantime, we're including the brief writeup by Paco.
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(If CuD publishes a better one first, I probably won't duplicate it here.)
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I'm glad to see Paco thinks this so positive; I was concerned that
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$50K doesn't nearly compensate for wreking Steve Jackson's business. --strick
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-- Subject: Justice for Steve jackson Games!
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-- PGP or not PGP (from Hamlet Act III Scene I)
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-- FREE EVENTS AT COMPUTER LITERACY BOOKSHOPS: 10 DAYS THAT SHOOK S. VALLEY
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-- femme nikita
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-- Yet another flame about security
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-- ASCII Jail
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________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 01:31 GMT
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From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com>
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To: surfpunk <surfpunk@osc.osc.com>
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Subject: Justice for Steve jackson Games!
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Dear Surfpunks,
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(and others)
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You may have already heard this. Sorry about crosspostings.
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The following files may be of interest to those who
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may come under government scrutiny.
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Some of you may remember when the Secret Service stole
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a great deal of property from Steve Jackson Games for files
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allegedly owned at one time by an employee. I pass along the good news
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that you can sue the government and win in as little as three years.
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Maat has not totally died, let's see if can get the old gal
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and running again!
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Don Webb
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0004200716@mcimail.com
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The Secret of magic is to transform the magician!
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@#@$#@@#@@#$@#$@#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#@$#$#@$#@$#@$
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Date: Mon Mar 15, 1993 5:13 pm EST
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From: Paco Xander Nathan
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EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
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MBX: wixer!wixer.cactus.org!pacoid@cactus.org
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TO: * Don Webb / MCI ID: 420-0716
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Subject: COMMUN - We have a verdict. (fwd)
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Sent from the cyberdeck of: pacoid@wixer.cactus.org (Paco Xander Nathan)
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For Lists That Care About Computer Privacy:
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In case you didn't catch this elsewheres.. I've been covering the
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SJG vs. SS trial for certain magazines. Hopefully you'll be able
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to read soon an in-depth, first hand account of the fiasco our paid
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officials attempted to conduct during the SS trial.
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The bueno news is that individuals and small companies can actually
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sue the US Fed govt for privacy violations, and win.
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Judge Sparks didn't give a whole lot of airplay to the *damages*
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sustained, but this is an important step forward. The flood
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gates are opened..
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pxn.
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----
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Forwarded message:
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> From cs.utexas.edu!tic.com!sjackson@cactus.org Sun Mar 14 16:25:06 1993
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> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:05:19 -0600
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> From: tic.com!sjackson@cactus.org (Steve Jackson)
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> Message-Id: <9303142105.AA17568@aahsa.tic.com>
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> To: ...
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> Subject: We have a verdict.
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>
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> We won.
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>
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> Pete Kennedy, our attorney at George, Donaldson & Ford, called me
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> with the news about 3:30 today. Apparently the decision came in late
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> Friday while Pete was at the CFP.
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>
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> The judge ruled for us on both the PPA and ECPA, though he says that
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> taking the computer out the door was not an "interception." (I have not
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> read the decision yet, so no quotes here.)
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>
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> He awarded damages of $1,000 per plaintiff under the ECPA.
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>
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> Under the PPA, he awarded SJ Games $42,259 for lost profits in 1990, and
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> out of pocket costs of $8,781.
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>
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> Our attorneys are also entitled to submit a request for their costs.
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>
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> No word on appeal yet.
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>
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> Look for a more complete and coherent account after we all read
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> the decision.
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>
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> Please copy this announcement to all electronic and other media.
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>
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> Thanks for your support through all this!
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________________________________________________________________________
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To: rms@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: crypto poem
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From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:17:29 -0800
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Subject: And now for something completely different...
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PGP or not PGP (from Hamlet Act III Scene I)
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--------------
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PGP or not PGP - that is the question
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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
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The slings and arrows of outrageous patents,
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Or to take arms against a sea of lawyers,
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And by encrypting end them? To crypt, to sign
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No more; and by a program to say we end
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The patents and the export restrictions
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That RSA is heir to - 'tis a consummation.
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Devoutly to be wish'd. To crypt, to sign.
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To crypt - perchance to pem-code: aye, there's the rub!
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For in that test of wills what lawyers may come
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When we have shuffled off this PGP business,
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Must give us pause. There's the respect
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that makes calamity of such legal restrictions.
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For who would bear the whips and scorns of Leavenworth
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Th'patent systems wrong, the export laws worse,
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The pangs of despis'd lawyers, the NSA's delay,
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The insolence of Sternlight, and the spurns
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That patient usage of PGP takes
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When he himself might his quietus make
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with PEM? Who would this program bear,
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To grunt and sweat under a weary system,
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But that the dread of something after PEM
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The undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
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No cryptographer returns -- puzzles the will,
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And makes us rather bear those ills we have
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Than fly to others that we know not of?
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
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And thus the native hue of resolution
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Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
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And enterprises of great pith and moment
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With this regard their currents turn awry
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And lose the name of action.
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- Apologies to Bill Shakespeare
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________________________________________________________________________
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From: vincee@clbooks.COM (Vince Emery - Marketing Manager)
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To: eventlist@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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Subject: CLB EVENT NOTICE
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 21:00:01 PST
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PLEASE POST IN YOUR SYSTEM. Thanks! :)
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________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 17:53:02 EST
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From: SUN_ANVIL <palma%TRBOUN.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com
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Subject: RE: [surfpunk-0061] FAQ: SURFPUNK Fequently Asked Questions v0.0
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femme nikita is someone about whom an american remake should NOT
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be made....
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a
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adriano p. PALMA
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BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY [PHILOSOPHY DEPT.] 80815 BEBEK-ISTANBUL TURKEY
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VOX| off# +90 1 263-1540 ext.1961 home# +90 1 263-1540 ext.1792
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From: norit@attmail.com
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Date: 31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT
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To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com
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Subject: Yet another flame about security
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The following message was sent by me to obs@world with cc surfpunk.
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I got surfpunk's address wrong and it bounced.
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meanwhile flame cooled a bit and obs sent me reply saying (more or less):
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1) There are ways to cancel a rip-off charge (if you're alert)
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2) You're free to do as you want, but why do you trust a waiter with your card
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and not the internet.
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I replied, maybe they'll reply and ad-infinitum until we become close friends
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(and I don't think long chats between friends are important to our overloaded
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community). Anyway, here's the original message. I still think it's important
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since people don't suspect the capability of total strangers in sites you've
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never headr of to tap your mail (I wonder if obs gave it a thought).
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---------cut/paste (don't swallow/inhale)------------------------
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*flame on*
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I got an order form from "The Online Bookstore" (obs) saying:
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"Fill in credit card details, etc." Absentmindedly I almost filled it.
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Luckily, I was shaken back to reality by the rest of the message:
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> ... Please be advised that we cannot guarantee the security
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> of your charge card number when it's transferred over the net,
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> though we process orders immediately and delete the file at that time.
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Now I KNOW obs are GOOD people. And if I was dumb enough to almost
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send my company's card details on the wild blue internet, I don't
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blame obs for unintentionally "setting the trap" for me. Both me
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and obs proved some degree of gulibility.
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So once again brothers & sisters of the Internet:
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1) Don't send Credit-card E-mail order forms
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(Even if you're honest! Even if it contains a warning!)
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2) Never fill one. It's a tough matrix out there. Somebode ELSE can lift
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your number.
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3) Write to your congressman, E-mail your president, do anything
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you can do as citizens of your respective countries in order
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to set-up a legaly recognized encryption/authentication system.
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*flame off*
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Virtually yours,
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Nimrod Kerrett (Abu Zeresh)
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17 Rue du Lac
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Geneve 1207
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Switzerland
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norit@attmail.com
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Presmission given to repost (including name & details)
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From: norit@attmail.com
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Date: 31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT
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To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com
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Subject: ASCII Jail
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Hi,
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Enclosed is my proposal for the campain for MIME.
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$o$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$o$
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$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$
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$$$$ o$$$$o o o o$$$$o $$$$
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$$$$ oo$$$$$$$o$o$oo ooo$o$o$$$$$$ooo $$$$
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$$$$ o$"oo "o o"o$ $$o o$$ $o" o" """$oo $$$$
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$$$$ o$"$$ "o"o"o"o"$o" "o$o"o"o"$o $$"$$ $$$$
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$$$$ o$$$o$o $o"o$"$$$$$o $o$$"$$"oo"ooo"$$"$o $$$$
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$$$$ o$$$o"o$"o "o$o"o"o$o" $$o"o$o"$ $"$o"$$$$ $$$$
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$$$$$$"$o$"$"$$ooo$$"$"$o$" "$o$"o$$$o $$"$$"o$$$$$$$$$
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ooo$"$$$$$$ $$"$$o$$"o""o"$"$"$$o o$$"$""o""$o$$o"$$"$oo"$$$$$"$ooo
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$"$ $o"$$$$o$"$$o$o"$$"$oo$"$"$o$$ $$"$"$$$o $o$"o$$o$$"o$$$$$"o"o"$$
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"$o"o"o$$$$$ $$$o"$$o$$o""$o$$$$$" "$$$$oo""$"$"$"$o$$"$o"$$$$$ $$ o"
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$ "$o"$$$$$"$$o$$$$o$o$"o"o$oo$o$ $$o"$$o"o$$$o$$$$"$$o"$$$$o$ $"o$
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$"$o"$o$$$$$oo"$$$$$$"$$o$$$$$"" ""$$$o$o$o$$$$$$$o"$o$$$$$o$o$"o
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$$o$"o$$$$$$o$$$$$$"$$$$$$$$ "$$$$$$$o$$$$o$$o$$$$$$ $$o$$
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$o$$$$$$$$$" " "" "$$$$$ $$$$$" "" "" $$$$$$$o$$o
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$"" $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ """$
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$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$
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Break out of the ASCII jail
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Get a MIME reader
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Can you tell me more about about MIME?
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Do you have a PC reader/packer, Unix source code? doc describing standard?
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Does it support Jpeg? (we AT&T dudes pay almost $0.50/K transitted).
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[ If you ask archie about "metamail", he'll lead you to some software.
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The standard is in internet Request For Comment (RFC) number 1341:
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1341 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Mechanisms for Specifying
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and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
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Try something like ftp://ftp.uu.net/inet/rfc/rfc1341. -- strick
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]
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Also: can you mail me back-Issues 57, 49, 24?
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Thanx
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Abu-Zeresh
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Confusion to our enemies.
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