[Gllug] Bomb the ISP's

[ae]

So to extend the logic a bit further, once the internet has been implicated
and consequently it's proven that bin laden used linux to communicate, does
that mean anyone who has ever worked on linux will have to be taken out
using cruise missiles as well?  I wonder if RMS and Linus have gone into
hiding yet.

Anthony.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Edwards" <john_ed at cornerstonelinux.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: 17 September 2001 14:23
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Bomb the ISP's


> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:08:24PM +0100, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> > * Alain Williams (addw at phcomp.co.uk) wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:37:10PM +0100, Jake Jellinek wrote:
> >>> In case anyone missed it:-
> >>>
> >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21694.html
> >>
> >> Quite right too, but:
> >> * they probably spoke on the 'phone, so let us also take out all phone
exchanges that
> >> don't have US wire tapping installed;
> >> * they probably sent each other letters, so let us also take out all
mail sorting offices
> >> that don't permit the US to real all post.
> >
> > Last time bin laden was interviewed it transpired that he generally
> > communicates by running encrypted messages stored on floppy discs by
> > couriers (his men).
>
> Didn't the BBC report that the Taliban had shutdown Afghanistan's links to
> the Internet a few months ago, citing the usual reason of immorallity, etc
?
>
> That would have made it is little hard for any terrorists in Afghanistan
to
> coordinate attacks via the Internet.
>
> > Let's hope the extend the insanity and finally ban floppy disks ;)
>
> I'd love to, but until there is another widely available, reliable,
> and bootable read/write media for computers we are stuck with them.
>
>
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