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Re: FWD: PC Computing Online: Bombshell

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cordian)
Fri Mar 19 01:23:52 1999

From: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 18:07:15 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <36F128AA.D615D08A@acm.org> from "Jim Gillogly" at Mar 18, 99 08:24:10 am
Reply-To: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>


> Your first clue is the date.  Somerson appears to have gotten an
> early start.  A little Web work demonstrates that there is no company
> with a Web presence named "Polar Foil" -- the only interesting reference
> is to the UL about NASA's in-flight experiments in human sexuality.
> Switchboard.com doesn't show any Profaslos living in the US.
> 
> Finally, note that Lydia Profaslo is an anagram of April Fool's Day.

Remember a number of years back, when it was discovered that many
workstations shipped by Sun had the microphone readable over the Net by
default?

Parody is sometimes only slightly in advance of the truth.

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"


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