[107118] in Cypherpunks
Re: Serialism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jkthomson)
Sat Jan 2 02:48:02 1999
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 23:35:45 -0800
To: ash@autoloop.com, spooth@qth.net, cryptography@c2.net,
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jkthomson <jkthomson@bigfoot.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901011750480.22153-100000@ouch.Oof.NET>
Reply-To: jkthomson <jkthomson@bigfoot.com>
At 05:52 PM 1/1/99 -0500, ash@autoloop.com wrote:
>SERIALISM EXPOSED!
>
>Composer Webern was Double Agent for Nazis
>
>By Heinrich Kincaid
>
>BERLIN, GERMANY (AP) - Recent admissions by an ex-Nazi official living
>in Argentina have confirmed what some musicologists have suspected for
>years: that early twentieth century German composer Anton Webern and
>his colleagues devised the so-called "serial" technique of music to
>encrypt messages to Nazi spies living in the United States and
>Britain.
my BS detector thinks it smelled something, you know...
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa062998.htm
and...
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa062998.htm
it did look plausible on the surface, however :)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
james 'keith' thomson <jkthomson@bigfoot.com> www.bigfoot.com/~ceildh
jkthomson:C181 991A 405C EAFB 2C46 79B5 B1DC DB78 8196 122D [06.07.98]
ceildh :1D79 59AF ED75 5945 6003 8240 DA34 ACCA 9DE4 6BC9 [05.14.98]
ICQ:354111 <keys> at pgp.mit.edu ...and former sysop of tnbnog BBS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key escrow to rule them all; key escrow to find them. Key escrow to
bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of
surveillance where Big Brother lies. - Peter Gutmann
=======================================================================
