At 01:48 PM 9/15/98 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>on 09/15/98 at 07:59 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QUOTED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
>
>>Blosser's alleged hacking was discovered when computers at U S West's
>>facility in Phoenix, which normally respond in 3 to 5 seconds, took as
>>long as five minutes to retrieve telephone numbers.
>
>Seems like he didn't bother to code his program to only use spare cycles.
[a] (fact) John did not write the above, he quoted the AP
[b] (fact) Aaron Blosser was running Prime95. He has posted to
this list, especially
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Blosser)
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 14:56:11 GMT
Subject: Mersenne: Howdy all...
See:
http://www.scruz.net/~luke/archives/digest/v01_0375.txt
[c] (speculation) Aaron may not be able to discuss his situation
on advice of lawyers.
[d] (observation) The AP account differs a *lot* from Aaron's
posted article
http://www.scruz.net/~luke/archives/digest/v01_0375.txt
--Luke