Now see here (4.50 / 2) (#90)
by johnny on Wed May 8th, 2002 at 09:15:11 PM EST
(anyoldthing@myhomepage) http://www.wetmachine.com/
Just because I don't encyrpt, it doesn't follow that I can't encrypt. I'll
grant you that in actual fact as a practical matter I don't encrypt, but
that doesn't mean I can't. If I wanted to, of course, I could just go next
door to see my friend & landlord and he could have me encrypting until the
cows came home. Which reminds me, my rent is late!
Anyway, I fall into that demographic that iGrrrl & others have described:
believe in privacy, don't do much about it (but I do surf without cookies,
and I don't use cell phones and I don't use credit cards).
Why don't I use encryption, then? To quote our old friend Reb Tevye, "I
will tell you: I don't know."
And lastly here's a tidbit that's somewhat off topic: I have a bunch of
yahoo and hotmail accounts, and sometimes just for grins I send notes from
one to the other with contents like this: "Let's kill George Bush. And
let's do microbial warfare to Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton. I despise the
Jihad. Let us anthrax the President until he is dead and let's assassinate
the public safety."
I started this practice after one of our own K5 brethren was tracked down
by the Secret Service on account of some of his posts here (which were
quite benign, if you ask me.) So I decided to see if I could get a rise out
of the Secret Service for mail sent from me, to me, and seen by none other.
Dear Wife Betty, looking over my shoulder one day & seeing one of these
things, said, "what the hell is that?" I told her. She said to Youngest
Daughter, "Your father is trying to get arrested again."
"No," I said. "It's illegal to threaten the President. But it's not illegal
to talk to yourself."
Since then I think my wife and daughter have taken up the practice. I
haven't caught an inquiry yet. But on the other hand, I live on Martha's
Vinyard, and in a hundred hours fishing over the last decade I haven't yet
caught a bluefish (it's nearly impossible to not catch a bluefish on
Martha's Vineyard.)
Meta: OK yes I admit it, this is the kind of slashdotty post that generally
gets modded to about 2.3 by our elite K5 post criteria. And if anybody else
wrote this note I would agree that it's self-indulgent and noisome and
meriting of a 2 or therebouts.
But hey, I am after all the eponymous johnny of the subject, and I rather
think I deserve some slack. (Actually, the mere fact that Don Davis is my
landlord should get me at least a 4 irregardless.)
yr frn,
jrs
TechnoParanoid NanoNovel Acts of the Apostles Fear the Future!
From a Kuro5in thread,"Johnny cant encrypt.'
