Fun_People Archive
6 May
Hey Kids! Be the first on your block to become an international arms

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Mon,  6 May 96 12:57:39 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: Hey Kids!  Be the first on your block to become an international arms
	trafficker!

Excerpted-from: TBTF for 5/5/96: Land rush in namespace
		from dawson@world.std.com (Keith Dawson)

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||| Become an international arms trafficker in one click |||

This page [11] sports a button labeled "Click here to become an Interna-
tional Arms Trafficker." Clicking on that button causes three lines of
perl code to be sent to an ISP in Antigua; the code implements a patented
RSA encryption algorithm. You can optionally give your name and email ad-
dress for addition to the list of known arms traffickers [12]. At this
writing it numbers 14 names. Two use handles and/or an email anonymizer;
one is a spoof (Willian Jefferson Clinton <president@whitehouse.gov>); and
eleven are very brave or very foolhardy.
[As of Mon May  6 12:56:53 PDT the list is 22 long...  -psl]

[11] <http://online.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/>
[12] <http://online.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/known-traffickers>

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