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Re: "Root Canal" questions
> In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
> > "Root Canal" questions
> > BTW, anyone have ideas about that name!?
>
> Having just been through this procedure (UK National Health, $70), I can
> tell you - It's all about *Deep Drilling*. Presumably for data, in this
> case. And it hurts.
>
> G
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Having just been informed that I'm to undergo this procedure in 4 days
time, I really really appreciate you telling me that it hurts.
Seriously, I think "Root Canal" must mean what it says. Root Canal. A
canal is a channel, a pathway. Root, in unix terminoligy means one who
can read anything on a system. Thus Root Canal would allow the FBI to
have a channel with full read privilages to all information in a system,
namely the phone system. Root Canal therefore is the same as Big Brother
in Orwellian terminology.
Thug