Subgenius Digest V3 #53

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Subgenius Digest Sun, 15 Mar 92 Volume 3 : Issue 53

Today's Topics:
virus conspiracy?
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 13:38:45 -0500
From: John Woods <jfw@eddie.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9203141838.AA05656@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: virus conspiracy?

> >One of the guests--I believe his name was "Rash"--commented that the
> >Michelangelo virus, along with many of the other viruses, may be the work of
> >those Software Professionals (smirk) who write anti-virus software. ...
> Lehrer must have been manning the PledgePhones too long to come up with an
> original gambit. Good ole Alfred E. Koppel floated the same theory on
> _Nightline_ earlier in the week. One of the two guests (probably the net's
> own PGN, I fergit) shrugged and said something to the effect of "Hey, who
> knows? Could be".

Heh. Someone on comp.risks recently observed that one of the off-brand
long-distance companies is about to start selling "phone fraud insurance",
leading to speculation that their customers were about to see a bout of
sponsored phone phreaking...

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