Geez, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you guys...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Van Burnham [SMTP:van_at_wired.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 12:26 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: RE: Warez?? Was: Re: James Willings still up?
>
> 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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Received on Fri Apr 17 1998 - 14:44:10 BST