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- From: mc/G=Brad/S=Hicks/OU=0205925@mhs.attmail.com
- Subject: Hackers and Pagans and Phre
- Message-ID: <199208261457.AA23696@eff.org>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:16:42 GMT
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- Date: 8/26/92 9:50 AM
- Subj: Hackers and Pagans and Phreaks, Oh My!
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- > I'm not a Pagan... if I have any religion it's Science... but if I were
- a
- > Pagan and someone had just compared me to a bunch of phreaks I'd be
- mighty
- > pissed off.
-
- Peter, you're missing my point ... and probably Chris's, as well.
-
- Chris was reminding me that, like him, I've been a victim of unfair
- harrassment, albeit for different reasons. (It's slightly off topic and
- old news, but remind me some time to tell you the MagickNet/Tex Burke
- story, the one he was referring to.) He thought it would make me
- sympathize with him, and asked me what I would do if the people harrassing
- me had been a small "freelance" group of nuts instead of police officers
- and reporters.
-
- I told the story I did to show Chris that in addition to police officers
- and the media harrassing me, there were small freelance groups of nuts
- harrassing me, so my situation in the late '80s is more closely analogous
- to his situation than he thought.
-
- But Pagans in the late 80s and hackers/phreaks in the early 90s do have
- something in common, though: a lot of unfounded hysteria among the public,
- fed mostly by ignorance and bad news reporting, is whipping government in
- general and law enforcement in particular to trample the Constitution
- underfoot. As a result, I think it would behoove current and former
- hackers and phreaks to behave in a way that doesn't pour gasoline on a
- raging fire. And when there's a McCarthy-style witch-hunt going on, it is
- just not right to cooperate with it just to punish people you don't like.
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- J. Brad Hicks | Do What Thou Wilt shall be the Whole of
- mhs!mc!Brad_Hicks@attmail.com | the Law. Love is the Law, Love under Will.
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