>>2603382 (pb)
Whatever happened to reading old magazines?
Well, as someone who had to pay big $ for an academic account in 1991 (not a compsci student, but saw the potential) I guess I agree with your qualifiers. If I fucked around, I lost my account and could be expelled.
You don't remember before Eternal September, do you? It was bad enough the Compuserv fags were connected, but then we got AOHell.
You want to do something?
Pull a Captain Midnight. Jam the uplink. Military can do this easily.
Colossus. Churchill ordered it broken up in pieces no bigger than a fist. Massively parallel.
Used a BBS program at first (Telix) and then upgraded to Trumpet Winsock on Win 3.1.
I was into BBSes from the mid 80's and loved FidoNet and kept wondering why all these competing BBS nets didn't have a gateway. Then I called a BBS which had a UUCP dump of newsgroups, this was in 89. When I got to uni I wanted my own account!
Snowden was very quiet/libertarian until a few years ago when he got a new Twitter account (his orignal one was
https://twitter.com/thetruehooha
>oo
Owl?
>ha
Hiram Abiff? Mason?
I heard of Assange years ago when he was putting out that book with Suelette Dreyfuss. That's why I trust him more than Snowden… he's been around longer.
The Russians okayed his international travel?
Usually if you have asylum you have to stay in the country.