OK, more on aardvark: When I started using new computer (VISTA) 10 or
12 years ago, I was having problem calling up or starting new
documents (blank page, etc.), so I started one with only "aardvark."
For years, then, I'd call up "aardvark," start whatever I wanted to
say and then save it as whatever necessary.
W
-----------------------------------------From: "Curley McLain via
Mercedes"
To: "Wilton Strickland via Mercedes"
Cc: "Curley McLain"
Sent: Saturday August 24 2019 12:18:00PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] test
Awshucks! Using Project Aardvark to confuse the chicoms was more
interesting!
Wilton Strickland via Mercedes wrote on 8/23/19 5:34 PM:
>
> After using new email system for coupla months, was not able to
open
> attachments. 'Thought I had found the "problem" and changed
settings
> to correct it. Sending the "aardvark" attachment was an easy way to
> check it. It works. Nothing nefarious. No nuke codes passed.
>
> W
>
> -----------------------------------------From: "Curt Raymond via
> Mercedes"
> To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
> Cc: "Curt Raymond"
> Sent: Thursday August 22 2019 8:42:25PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] test
>
> When I was in college I worked for the IT group for one year. This
was
> one of the real old school IT groups where you had to kiss the ring
> of
> the boss etc.At the end of the school year they laid off my manager
> which was a shame, the guy was great. The rest of us refused to
kiss
> the ring and were not re-hired the next year. Unfortunately for
them
> we had already penetrated the network and could do what we wanted.
> We knew they were monitoring our email so we instituted strict
> security protocols that included encrypting everything with PGP
> (Pretty Good Privacy). The encryption scheme would take 1 line of
> text
> and turn it into a paragraph or a paragraph into a page etc. So the
> amount of traffic stayed the same but the volume of each message
> jumped dramatically.
> It wasn't long before the 5 ringleaders (of which I was the least
> technical but most scheming) were hauled in to account for
ourselves.
> They rolled out "We know you're up to something, we don't know what
> but you better tell us or else!" We kept our mouths shut knowing
> there
> wasn't anything they could do to us, even if they could decrypt our
> messages it was all mundane stuff like "What time is dinner?" any
> actual scheming we did in person, off campus.
> When I graduated the president of the college shook my hand for a
> second longer than everybody else "I'm not sad to see you go." We
> laughed, it was great.
> -Curt
>
> On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 3:02:28 PM EDT, OK Don via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> No, he is fully aware that they are, and is just giving them
> something to
> ponder ...
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:52 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> > What's the hidden meaning, Wilton? Are you afraid your
> conversations are
> > being monitored in Beijing?
> >
>
> --
> OK Don
>
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time
> to
> pause and reflect." Mark Twain
>
> "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The
> few who
> learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric
> fence
> for themselves."
>
> WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
> 2013 F150, 18 mpg
> 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
> 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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