Makes you wonder whether someone reported the incident or if Echelon picked it up automatically, some of its key words were certainly in the message - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/19347.html If you don't know about Echelon there is some good info at http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/faq.html It's a scary big brother world we are living in. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: Re: SS > I got into work and had a few phone messages from my wife who was > quite > concerned. It seems that the secret service called her about the > thread. > That's all I need. Macromedia AND the US government upset with me. :) > Actually, they just wanted the headers from the post. I sent them the > posters apology as well. Hope it's all ok. > > > > That president thread in CF-Talk reminded me of something I heard > > ages ago. > > A friend of mine, in his freshman Comp Sci year in Dublin Ireland, > > told me a > > story of two classmates. The first was this clueless girl who knew > > nothing > > about computers and the other was this guy was helping her out with > > labs > > etc. Anyway he knew all her passwords and thought it would be funny > > to send > > an email death threat to Clinton (~1994/5). > > > > Of course who arrives the next day but the police aiding two FBI > > agents! > > So they grill her a while, she maintains she knew nothing about it. > > The guy > > eventually fesses up to say it was just a prank. The net result was > > both of > > them were blacklisted ! > > > > Bearing in mind this was in a foreign country and we're not even > > members of > > NATO. > > > > Kevin Gilchrist > > > > Senior Consultant > > RedSiren Technologies Inc. > > 412 281 4427 > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
