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- From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: i say kill bush
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.115825.9725@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 11:58:25 GMT
- References: <JON.92Nov5172406@zeus.med.utah.edu> <1992Nov6.154851.23744@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov9.140830.10015@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov9.140830.10015@vax.oxford.ac.uk> reese@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.154851.23744@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes:
- >> Just a quick note since I'm sure you're all dying of curiosity.
- >>
- >> I'm the sys.admin. of Nyx, from where the original posting emanated.
- >>
- >> Anyway -- without compromising anyone's privacy, I will say that I did
- >> receive a call from a special agent of the Secret Service regarding the
- >> posting. I provided him with the information the user gave publicly (our
- >> enhanced "finger" type information), and he said they would be paying
- >> him a visit. I did explain to him how people often lose inhibitions
- >> when posting, that the net was often a pretty loose place, no guarantee it
- >> was really him, etc. He seemed to agree with this, but said that they
- >> needed to investigate all such threats, etc.
- >>
- >> As for how they found out, I have no idea, but my hunch is someone
- >> on the net sent them a copy (rather than them monitoring everything).
- >
- >
- >This is absolutely, by far and away, the most scary thing I think
- >I've read for a long time. Secret Service reading the net?
- >
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- I did'nt think anyone in the CIA could read.
-
- Or is that how you become an officer ?
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