Kindred We much appreciate this list and the stringent parameters which our dear Wes insists upon for intelligent, informed dialogue. The following is merely an opinionated conjecture, and we run the risk of the dreaded "off topic" warning which may come our way as a result of this posting. That being said, the beauty of the Internet is that ya still get a chance to say what ya gotta say in the face of the ever burgeoning BigBrother. We are so on the "fringe" that we run a Mac, use Netscape and have Clarisworks as our word program; as such, we have not been hit by the infamous "Melissa." However, "We Watch" fore "Smoke" from this "Fire" and "Feel" that the "Truth" just might " Be Hidden WithIn" separate "Sordid Agendas." Least we forget, there was a lotta allegations regarding "this, that and the other thing" surrounding that commercial jet which fell outta the sky off the coast of New York a couple years ago. Eventually it was revealed that a manufacturer's designer flaw was the true culprit. Yet, not before mountains of new legislation was rushed thru congress and enacted (fore our own protection, of course) into "anti-terrorist" laws that still remain. How many times has it been said that "legislation for our own protection" must extend into the Internet/Web forum? What about the "Blue Ribbon Campaigns" that are of a "grass root" level and intended to keep CyberSpace Free? How likely is it that this is a "Set Up" which in feeding on it's own fear based media/web generated emotions? Is it possible, that the Melissa virus is an insidious plot/hoax perpetrated by the Government behind the governments? For example, already the "author" has been "identified" by the controversial (for our own good) id chip/code (see how well it worked to "save us") which should be implanted in all electronic devices for our own protection like the new Pentium III, which, because of consumer response was shipped "deactivated". Are we to believe the very Infrastructure of our nation has been threatened and the danger to national security is so huge the FBI has put all of it's field offices into the fray? They chant, "My god, this is terrorism and we better have tighter, stricter, codified legislation surrounding the internet because, as we can see from this little hacker prank, we are all at risk." Afterall, "This time, it was only servers overwhelmed with email, and a fairly benign generation of pornographic sites list, but next time, next time..." I suppose this just goes to show how easy it was/is to "overtake" the system and affect millions of people worldwide. And the cry goes up from the GeneralPublic...please, please, please protect us from those awful nasty pervert phreaks that frequent alternative sex newsgroups and are trying to undermine the status quo. Think of the children! M/S *********************************************************** EWAR-L Electronic Warfare Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: unsubscribe EWAR-L or subscribe EWAR-L. To post messages, send to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Previous posts: <http://www.sonic.net/~west/ewar/digest.htm>. EWAR Web site: <http://www.sonic.net/~west/ewar/ewar.htm>. -Wes Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, list owner
