At 10:39 AM 5/8/2000 -0700, Jim Stephenson-Dunn wrote:
>No! We don't want to fix the holes! We want to keep a record of them
>without telling the admins, and when they misbehave, not only can we pop
>their kneecaps, set fire to their house, release information to their
>families they wouldn't want to be released, but also as a grand finale,
>we can take control of the machine and do what we wanted anyway.
>Eventually, we as the IETF would have complete control of every machine
>connected to the Internet, thereby giving us control of the entire
>planet, which in turn would allow us to park wherever we wanted and
>*not*get*a*ticket*!!!!!! :-)
Dang! Jim's gone and uncovered my nefarious retirement plan. Now I'll
have to think of something else :-(
Jim, you left out the "Nyah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" part...
vint
p.s. apologies to IETF list for cluttering with this. It just slipped out.
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