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- From: jont@cs.su.oz.au (Jonathon Earnshaw Tidswell)
- Subject: Re: Avalog arrested....
- Reply-To: jont@cs.su.oz.au (Jonathon Earnshaw Tidswell)
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:09:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.110900.22072@cs.su.oz.au>
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- In article <By3qE0.n41@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Darkman) wrote:
- | How about someone just give us the real story on what happened? I seem to get
- Does any 1 person know the whole story ?
- ( I dont know it. )
-
- | the impression that Avalon destroyed a few sites computer systems that he
- | thought people were hacking into his system from and the method of destruction
- | was a trapdoor in a server version he released. Did I hit the nail on the
- No, you missed the nail.
- I dont know of any systems he destroyed (unless overloading machines running
- irc servers which would have died without his effort is "killing" :)
-
- | head or am I completely off base? I also assume that he was arrested for this?
- I believe there was no police involvement at all.
- In fact I dont believe any missles were launched.
- The article I saw was humour, however the author forgot the "necessary"
- ':-) For the humoured impaired' disclaimer.
-
- | Someone care to comment on this?
- Well it was rather funny where I sat, but maybe it was a situation comedy
- - you had to be there.
- ( real answer: More than I have ? I doubt it. )
-
- Ernie
- PS I HATE personality/ego clashes in IRC.
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