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April Fools (was FWD: PC Computing Online: Bombshell)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Mar 18 13:26:55 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 18:05:58 +0100 (CET)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
This is an April Fool's joke.
Bombshell
Paul Somerson
April, 1999
A shocking revelation in a little-known Minnesota legal case is about
to throw the entire PC industry into turmoil. And unless privacy
advocates are successful in a court challenge, everyday users may be
in serious danger of being sued or fired.
It turns out that virtually every computer system purchased after
March 1996 contains a microphone, and that the IT departments at Polar
and other companies had routinely been using special sound-activated
software to record and collect conversations.
