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Re: The Offending Stronghold posts...
Robert Hettinga wrote:
>> * I'll supply copies of messages cited if you like.
>
>Would you please, just so I could trash them myself this time. :-).
OK. Here they are:
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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 17:23:14 -0500
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From: John Young <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: More on Stronghold Charge - 1
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Subject: Disappearing articles?
From: [email protected] (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Comments: All power to the ZOG!
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 97 10:39:11 EST
Organization: Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.
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We already know that Sandy's bot automatically discards submissions from
people he doesn't like, irrespective of contents. In the past the rejected
articles were tossed to the "flames" list. Now Sandy has gone one step
further. The following article criticized the product Sandy is paid to
peddle. It showed up on the 'unedited' list, but Sandy hated its contents
so much that it hasn't made it to EITHER censored or the 'flames' list!
This is the beginning of the censored article:
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Subject: Security alert!!!
From: [email protected] (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Comments: All power to the ZOG!
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 16:15:21 EST
Organization: Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.
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Precedence: bulk
WARNING: There's a rogue trojan horse out there on the internet known as the
"stronghold web server". It's actually a hacked-up version of Apache with a
backdoor, which allows hackers (or whoever knows the backdoor) to steal credit
card numbers and other confidentil information on the Internet.
Be careful! Always use encryption. Do not send confidential information 9such
as passwords and credit card numbers) to any site running the trojan horse
"stronghold".
In general, beware of "snake oil" security products and hacked-up versions of
free software.
Please repost this warning to all relevant computer security forums.
(rest snipped to save bandwidth)
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 18:10:58 -0500
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From: John Young <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Is Sandy really censoring criticisms of Stronghold, his
product?
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My version of DV's ploy came via the unedited list.
There was also a good, brief discussion about Vulis's multi-pronged
Denial of Service attack on Cypherpunks, which came unedited, along
with other informative comments about how a technologically adept
attacker singles out a quarry amongst a lumbering, slumbering, cud-
chewing herd. Quite beastly cryptoanarchistic.
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Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 13:17:32 -0500
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From: John Young <[email protected]>
Subject: Who's Censoring Who?
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Sandy's e-mailed several of us who've sent messages about Vulis's
ploy to put Sandy in a conflict-of-interest bind -- a well-known attack
on moderators of all kinds, not just on the net.
What's worth admiring is how Vulis has adeptly managed to get others
-- targets and witting and unwitting cohorts -- to go along with his attack,
attack, attack, by opposing or supporting it. A useful lesson.
Smart dude, that Vulis, but no more so than others on the Net, say, Tim
May, and in the world who've done the same elsewhere, maybe
by even smarter dude(s) who provoked, angered, insulted, an unwitting
Vulis, or May, to attack on behalf of ...
But such deception is to be expected, along with feigned suprise and
outrage at the unfairness of opponents fighting as dirty as one's own
pure-blackhearts.
Sandy's not censoring cypherpunks, nor is Vulis or May or any single
person alone. As Pogo said, it's all of us, posters and lurkers and spooks,
each trying to get one's way to prevail, under guise of a high principle not
easily honored when the squeeze is on alone in a dark cell. Come on out
Sandy, it was just a drill.
It's probably worth saving accusations of censorship for the real thing,
after trial usage here for what is truly nasty high-stakes global info-war
gaming.
[Note: Thorn, "cuckoo" and TCM responded to this; none were forwarded
to the cp-edited list, AFIK.]
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