Re: please stop the Mitnick stuff

[Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>]

I'm enjoying the story, partly because I took copious abuse from some 
CPs for posting - before Mitnick hit the papers - that the Well was under 
surveillance.  [Crypto relevance of (TLA contract?) surveillance of ISPs 
should be obvious.]

Anyway, it's too bad Mitnick didn't read CP.

I'm still angry about the Well's voluntary cooperation in this scam.
Why should I pay money to an outfit that's in bed with the TLAs?


bdolan@use.usit.net, formerly bdolan@well.com


On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, John Young wrote:

>    Perry's askance leads me to propose stealing Littman's
>    book. It's as techno-thrilling as cypherpunks in describing
>    the melodrama of unexpected human/technology malfunctions.
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>    True, only a bit of bare crypto in it, with Kevin advising
>    Littman to use PGP so his Well mail could not be read -- as
>    Kevin's e-mail to Littman was by Shimomura and Markoff.
>    Littman says that was how Markoff learned of Kevin's and
>    Littman's exchanges and why Markoff started hustling
>    Littman for leads on Kevin to feed the trackers.
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>    Also, crypto-related: The fact that Shimomura's supposedly
>    secret files were not protected by encryption or other
>    security is what causes Littman and others to think there
>    was a sting (perhaps with TLA help) rather than foolish
>    vanity of the security wizard.
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>    Best, the book provides Clancy-like fun in deciphering the 
>    question of why humans abuse technology to mask their 
>    own frailty.
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