You might wanna upgrade the stuff your smoking or get a few more hours of
nappy time buddy .. (BTW I agree!)
Gary B
At 11:22 AM 2/18/00 -0800, Kevin Torkelson wrote:
>It has become clear to me now that Y2K is behind us, the new theme for 2000
>is computer paranoia. I don't think I've ever heard so much mainstream
>squawk or seen so many security expert websites pop up so fast ever before
>than lately. And why not, the stakes have increased have they not? It used
>to be an academic society that tinkered around writing code to communicate
>more efficiently with a strong sense of community. Now the vast body of it
>resembles more of a commercial spamming meat-market bangkok running on
>ghastly over-bloated code running brand-new state of the art applications
>through a couple of narrow straws (aka browsers) while people peep through
>narrower and narrower holes. What's next? I can hardly wait until the
>lawyers and governments finish with all of their hack attacks and propoganda
>so everyone can be so scared that anti-terrorist laws are passed in the
>cyber realm to the point where a malfunctioning ethernet card which
>accidentally sent three malformed packets to the wrong ip, or you told some
>chick she has a nice breast stroke lands you in prison. And when that
>happens, that's the day I disconnect the stupid wire leading to my house and
>start stringing cans in houses around the neighborhood and call it CANnet
>(complete with CAN-mail, CAN-commerce, CAN-trade, CAN-fax). Am I bitter?
>Nah, I enjoy downloading a few good terabytes of lesbo-animal porn off
>Usenet and banging fat chicks from AOL from time to time, and obsessivly
>blowing people's heads off in ten hour spurts of psychotic 3d killing spree
>frenzies (like Unreal Tournament! woo) just like everyone else. But
>seriously, I think people ought to burn their credit cards, and maybe
>instead of developing 2GB encryption, go see someone face-to-face about
>important matters..maybe mellow out once in awhile-- maybe pull the plug on
>your computer once in awhile. Yes, I have been around on the Internet for a
>long ass time and the thing I always liked about it the most was the vast
>amount of freedom it had to offer. I hope it stays that way. Until the day
>my home system has a robotic UZI attachment, I think I'll still sleep at
>night. But you people with a database of 5,000,000 credit cards, and the
>evil little kid down the street is after them so he can get a piece of the
>action... guess you're SOL ;P
>
>You know, I think it would be funny to set up a computer system with an
>Internet connection, register something like hackmehard.com, then start
>advertising it as a site with one of every computer type and firewall type
>imaginable for people who want to play around breaking into systems so they
>can post whatever obscene thing that came out of their illegal minds. Then,
>on the hour a robotic arm pulls the plug and an external tape device is
>connected, the power button pushed, and all systems restored to 100% sane
>system configuration. I wonder if there are any capitol venture firms out
>there willing to sponsor it, I bet it would be a huge success!
>
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