[46667] in Cypherpunks
Re: please stop the Mitnick stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Dolan)
Sat Jan 6 23:27:22 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 23:17:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601070216.VAA02580@pipe1.nyc.pipeline.com>
I'm enjoying the story, partly because I took copious abuse from some
CPs for posting - before Mitnick hit the papers - that the Well was under
surveillance. [Crypto relevance of (TLA contract?) surveillance of ISPs
should be obvious.]
Anyway, it's too bad Mitnick didn't read CP.
I'm still angry about the Well's voluntary cooperation in this scam.
Why should I pay money to an outfit that's in bed with the TLAs?
bdolan@use.usit.net, formerly bdolan@well.com
On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, John Young wrote:
> Perry's askance leads me to propose stealing Littman's
> book. It's as techno-thrilling as cypherpunks in describing
> the melodrama of unexpected human/technology malfunctions.
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> True, only a bit of bare crypto in it, with Kevin advising
> Littman to use PGP so his Well mail could not be read -- as
> Kevin's e-mail to Littman was by Shimomura and Markoff.
> Littman says that was how Markoff learned of Kevin's and
> Littman's exchanges and why Markoff started hustling
> Littman for leads on Kevin to feed the trackers.
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> Also, crypto-related: The fact that Shimomura's supposedly
> secret files were not protected by encryption or other
> security is what causes Littman and others to think there
> was a sting (perhaps with TLA help) rather than foolish
> vanity of the security wizard.
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> Best, the book provides Clancy-like fun in deciphering the
> question of why humans abuse technology to mask their
> own frailty.
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