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Where is principal Afterburner when we need him?

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Dec 11, 2007, 9:25:18 PM12/11/07
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95.239.4.66:0832 open socks4 proxy was used on 22 November for a
Hipcrime attack on nanae. And I got the port number by Googling so it
must have been open and was probably abused before that date.

It was used late North American Monday for a Hipcrime attack on
24hoursupport.helpdesk and the same open proxy was still there Tuesday
at 11:16 GMT.

At one time, RCN (formerly Erols) had the famous Afterburner on its
abuse desk. Now, it seems to have Dave Null.

Remember - go to RCN for your net-abuse needs. You put up a phishing
page? It will still be up on Valentine Day. You can get Giganews with
only IP authentication through RCN.

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political significance of any kind was fitted into the B vocabulary. The
name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country,
or institution, or public building, was invariably cut down into the
familiar shape; that is, a single easily pronounced word with the
smallest number of syllables that would preserve the original
derivation. In the Ministry of Truth, for example, the Records
Department, in which Winston Smith worked, was called Recdep, the
Fiction Department was called Ficdep, the Teleprogrammes Department was
called Teledep, and so on. This was not done solely with the object of
saving time. Even in the early decades of the twentieth century,
telescoped words and phrases had been one of the characteristic features
of political language; and it had been noticed that the tendency to use
abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and
totalitarian organizations. Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo,
Comintern, Inprecorr, Agitprop. In the beginning the practice had been
adopted as it were instinctively, but in Newspeak it was used with a
conscious purpose. It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one
narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most of the
associations that would otherwise cling to it. The words Communist
International, for instance, call up a composite picture of universal
human brotherhood, red flags, barricades, K


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