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joy.you.to - 10:45am Mar 1, 2001 EST (#384 of 388)

Computer science

Snooping around I have found
There are web sites that

Have security tools"freeware"
Some steal your passwords(ICQ)

Some ping your ports
That means stalk someone!!!!

Some send virus's to folks you dont like
Yes theres a lot of software for free

For people who like to spy and snoop
I have a scanner that gives out

The names and numbers of people
That scan my ports

I know some but last night had 11 hits
2 caught my attention you see

One from Woodland Texas
and the other......216.190.30.249

That was a prison you see.....
I wont mention the rest they are

Mostly universitys ,Is there a U in Chili?
Some in Roma and Amsterdam ect...ect...

So you see anyone can see what you do
On the information highway and its free

Software to spy and pry ,so do be careful
You are never secure you see................

Be very careful on ICQ it is most insecure

sailor-moon - 11:49am Mar 1, 2001 EST (#385 of 388)

I see in the USA

The Seeds brought to market,
For corn have been Altered.
GM for this years crop.

rshowalter - 11:58am Mar 1, 2001 EST (#386 of 388)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

There's an installation
In a state I won't name
The existence of which is not
acknowledged, except with winks

Secrecy is scary
And just the name of this place
Spoken in whispers
CHILLS

A guy I know
And happen to trust
Has fun, and makes money

Monitoring the security cameras
Around that place
From 3000 miles away

And doing LOTS of other
"Impossible" things

He isn't Brazilian, or Cambodian
But a Brazilian or Cambodian
Could do this, too
Maybe, or maybe not
Who can tell?

It is hard to tell.

Microsoft get's penetrated
The military does, as well
Microsoft may find out
Military folks are much
less likely to know.

Things are harder to hide
than they used to be, these days
And switches can sometimes be flipped
In surprising ways
From a distance.

Your military forces
Are watching over you
they say:
"PEACE IS OUR PROFESSION."

SLEEP WELL.

cuchulain14 - 12:33pm Mar 1, 2001 EST (#387 of 388)

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rshowalter - 02:07pm Mar 1, 2001 EST (#388 of 388)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Suppose you can swim well
and folks know it
And you're near some water
And a stranger is drowning?
A stranger you could save.

Aren't you SUPPOSED
to drop your clothes and business,
get wet and inconvenienced,
and pull that person out?

In a certain sense
I "swim pretty well"
and have a certain background.
And I think that there's
maybe a 10% chance
of the world blowing up
per year , with messes as they are

Lets see --- six billion people
And a tenth chance
of dying from nukes per year
A "statistical expected value" of
a hundred Jewish holocausts, per year
or one point six million "expected deaths" per day.

Maybe I've slipped a decimal point.
But even so, what would YOU do in my postion?
What would you expect of yourself?

I'm trying to be careful,
and working hard ....
and even prepared to take
some personal risks --
and even be impolite.

Nothing special. ...
You'd do the same in my position.
Wouldn't you?

It seems to me
that some facts need to be checked.
With umpires, and in public,
So that facts get clear.
So the world can go on.

I've been a terrible
pain in the ass around here
It was the best place
in the world I could figure
To give it a try!

So I came here, yelling "help."
And got helped and instructed
and put through paces,
by a smart and rough guy.
And then actually rescued
by a lady who can do
things I could never
know enough to dream of,
beautifully.

. . . . I think nukes can come down
And come down soon

It would be a relief for me,
and I think a joy
that, these days,
folks have forgotten to even dream of.

Sure looks practical to me
Why not soon?

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