Warez?? Was: Re: James Willings still up?

From: Van Burnham <van_at_wired.com>
Date: Fri Apr 17 14:26:22 1998

AAAAAAAAH. Wrongo. Try again.


Or was that a little joke??

van

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Fandt [SMTP:cfandt_at_servtech.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 9:10 AM
>> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
>> Subject: Warez?? Was: Re: James Willings still up?
>>
>> Forgive me for not knowing what _might_ be common knowledge amongst some
>> folks here, but what is this "warez" thing??
>>
>Warez (pronounced "war-ehs" is an infamous village in southern Mexico that
>was once a training camp for CIA counter-insurgency computer terrorism
>recruits. Furnished with the highest end computer hacking equipment by the
>US Government, under the direction of Oliver North, they went rogue when the
>program was discontinued during the Iran-Contra scandal. After their
>payroll was cut, the village, ironically, hired itself out to international
>terrorist concerns to perform paid attacks on US commerce. This situation
>was exacerbated by an abortive attempt to invade Warez by Puerto Rican
>commandos under the direction of the US military in 1997. This has since
>been known as the "Bay of Warez" disaster.
>
>Kai


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