Declan, I finally realized what you were talking
about when you wrote this:
DM wrote:
#
#[Vatis'] reported comments are a little, well, unusual.
This was apparently what you were referring to:
Tim May receives NIPC internal notes:
#
#Michael Vatis, deputy assistant director and chief
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Declan wrote:
>#
># Yes, clearly I was wrong and this must be the real thing.
># I urge you to start an online campaign straightaway!
>
>I'm stunned you think this is a joke.
You misspelled "hoax". Think a
Declan writes:
> There seem to be three explanations.
> 1. Tim is having some fun with us.
Does anyone seriously think this is not the case? The alleged message
mentions far too many Cypherpunk-interest topical news items in one place,
and I seriously doubt the NIPC has suddenly adopted Tim's
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> Now that I've actually read through some of what Tim posted, I think
> it's clear what it is. Hint: Vatis wasn't in charge of NIPC by June
> 29, and I don't recall any such hearing, and his reported comments
> are a little, well, unusual. --Declan
"
Declan wrote:
#
# Yes, clearly I was wrong and this must be the real thing.
# I urge you to start an online campaign straightaway!
I'm stunned you think this is a joke.
Okay, Tim, show us the SMTP header.
Your ISP received it from...?
Declan,
Here's a #4
#4 - NIPC is looking for high profile missions to back up up next year's
request for a massive appropriations increase and is hoping to stir up
the malcontents with incendiary leaks authenticated by a press release
about NIPC internal virus troubles. The negative effects of
Previously:
Tim May wrote:
#
#I really cannot imagine why I am getting these SirCam messages
#from some government agency named "NIPC," unless for some reason
#my e-mail address is in their address book. How could that happen?
SlowBrain wrote:
#
#I don't know...
I do now.
I
At 01:15 AM 7/26/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>There seem to be three explanations.
Yes. But we can assume that TM knows who NIPC are. (And
vice-versa :-) Ergo, this is Tim's humor.
But it almost caught me too.
>1. Tim is having some fun with us. It would be easy for him to do so, and
Now that I've actually read through some of what Tim posted, I think
it's clear what it is. Hint: Vatis wasn't in charge of NIPC by June
29, and I don't recall any such hearing, and his reported comments
are a little, well, unusual. --Declan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:15:21AM -0400, Declan McCul
Cypherpunks,
I've been getting anywhere from 10 to 30 "SirCam" worm messages a
day. The volume is now declining. Most have attached files containing
fragments of Microsoft Word documents, apparently extracted from the
disk drive of the sender. Most are the usual garbage people write to
each o
Tim May forwarded SirCam output:
#
#Michael Vatis, deputy assistant director and chief of the Federal
#Bureau of Investigation's National Infrastructure Protection Center
#(NIPC) created February 26, 1998, told the Senate Judiciary
#Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Governm
4. It's another one of those 'hahaha' virus trolls that has been going on
for a while now.
And you guys are the 'techno-elite'
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> There seem to be three explanations.
>
> 1. Tim is having some fun with us. It would be easy for him to do so, a
Jim Choate, Tivoli Engineer of Quality Assurance wrote:
#
#4. It's another one of those 'hahaha' virus trolls
# that has been going on for a while now.
#
#And you guys are the 'techno-elite'
It's official: you're dumber than a rock.
At 02:48 AM 7/26/2001 +, Triffid Master wrote:
>[ My PSINet email is history. ]
>
>Tim May wrote:
>#
>#I really cannot imagine why I am getting these SirCam messages
>#from some government agency named "NIPC," unless for some reason
>#my e-mail address is in their address book. How
[ My PSINet email is history. ]
Tim May wrote:
#
#I really cannot imagine why I am getting these SirCam messages
#from some government agency named "NIPC," unless for some reason
#my e-mail address is in their address book. How could that happen?
I don't know, but I just got my firs
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