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Okay, who told you to say that? ;-) -- James Smith, CCNA Chief Network/System Administrator DXSTORM.COM http://www.dxstorm.com/ DXSTORM Inc. 2140 Winston Park Drive, Suite 203 Oakville, ON, CA L6H 5V5 Tel: 905-829-3389 (email preferred) Fax: 905-829-5692 1-877-DXSTORM (1-877-397-8676) It's Unix or nothing! On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > As co-moderator emeritus of Fidonet's CONSPRCY echo, I love a good > conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but let's get real, folks. > > No deeper motive need be applied to this than "ActiveX sucks, and I'm gonna > show 'em" or "wow, look what I can do if I combine these two script-kiddie > exploits I found on rootshell.com" or "oh, yeah? Prove it." The latter > being the driving force behind many destructive hacks over the years. > > Until we have enough facts, Occam's Razor isn't very useful, but it would > seem to exclude government-backed weirdness. > > > At 10:37 AM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote: > > >It would make one hell of an excuse for those wishing more government(s) > >involvement/control.... > > >
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