On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:15:44 -0600, Curly Bill
<CurlyBill@Tombstone.town> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:18:34 -0600, Curly Bill
>><CurlyBill@Tombstone.town> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>NoW@ayJose.com tossed this thought out into the electronic ether for all of us
>>>>>here to read, and said.......
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>NoW@ayJose.com tossed this thought out into the electronic ether for all of
>>>>>us
>>>>>>>here to read, and said.......
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I think that even with a crappy "paste" job on my part, you can get
>>>>>>>>the gist of my concerns.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I was acquitted from a WACO related busting in 1999, been using usenet
>>>>>>>>since 1995. How about you? <------Who can this be? LDU?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Could be, especially with the Luis part, but the me@me tag reminds me of
>>>>>>>someone and I do not think it was he. Then I am not able to tell you now all
>>>>>>>the people I heard of who were busted during this era, so it would be both
>>>>>bad
>>>>>>>memory on my part, and a lack of interest!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yes, I sort of agree about "a lack of interest..." except that the guy
>>>>>>is advising newbies to use P2P to DL kp, claiming that it is far safer
>>>>>>than Usenet.
>>>>>>But, I do grow weary of trying to protect newbies, and especially as
>>>>>>my viewing interests have shifted to the opposite end of the spectrum
>>>>>>these past few years.
>>>>>>Perhaps it's just time for me to let it be.
>>>>>
>>>>>Newbies will always be jail-fodder for LEA no matter how much one tries to
>>>>>educate them. As they look at the images in Usenet, their brain becomes overly
>>>>>saturated to the point where it slowly slips lower in the cranium, filtering
>>>>>down the spine and eventually resting solidly in their anus, allowing logic
>>>>>and mental process to pass quickly to the crotch where it becomes incredibly
>>>>>preoccupied with non-life-surviving skills. The result is a vast hole in the
>>>>>security typically present in sane thought, and in the end (pardon the pun),
>>>>>an intimate relationship with someone named Bubba within excessively close
>>>>>quarters and adding new meaning to the term "asshole".
>>>>>In summary, there is absolutely no safe way to either download or, and
>>>>>especially, upload child porn safely. Whenever a better mouse is bred, LEA
>>>>>creates an even better mousetrap. And when the encoding is superior, as in the
>>>>>case of RSA PGP, they will attempt to destroy and/or dilute it completely so
>>>>>it cannot be effective at all.
>>>>>And make no mistake, the efforts of LEA are an on-going cat and mouse game.
>>>>>But the longer you play the game, the more risk there is that you will make a
>>>>>mistake and be a loser. LEA can lose hundreds of times in a row, but a newbie
>>>>>cannot afford to lose even once!!!
>>>>
>>>>I totally agree with you.
>>>>The LEA's technical advancements, in tracing posters, plus the
>>>>international cooperation between such agencies, has certainly changed
>>>>since the old days.
>>>>
>>>>While the newbies can be expected to act foolish, what amazes me are
>>>>the antics of some of the older regs.
>>>>I've seen regs use anonymous servers, chained together, and accessed
>>>>via a series of proxies, to post binaries, and then exchange e-mail
>>>>with each other!
>>>>Not all of them, but several do engage in such silliness.
>>>>It's as though having reached a certain level of security, they feel
>>>>invincible.
>>>>Incredible!
>>>>
>>>>Back when a couple of the new PGP groups were starting, I was invited
>>>>to join in, but I declined.
>>>>I don't have anything to contribute, have probable seen 99% of
>>>>whatever they have, and cannot allow my security to be a part of a
>>>>group thing, where the chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
>>>>
>>>>Besides, at my age, young girls are between 30 and 45 years old!
>>>>
>>>Shit, at your age, young girls are betwen 40 and 55.
>>
>>Uh, how far between?
>>I mean heck, just because I don't have any tattoos, should I have to
>>wait so long?
>>
>You should get some tattoos. The female really goes for them. They
>think it's some sort of permanent makeup and they like the colors. You
>should see my eyeliner. <BFG>
I see. OK, anything in particular you would susggest?<s>
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