@@@@@ let's bind upon the agreed restaurants, but don't release the outstanding discourses @@@@@

[francoi...@spirtech.com]

was a
> threat to the community. Varney was ADAMENT in his assessment of Cummings
> as a danger but when pressed by Trujillo could come up with nothing more
> substantive than the BOOKS found in Cummings' home.
>
> These books came from publishers like Loompanix and dealt with such
> things as making bombs and establishing false identities. The other
> damning evidence was a list of Secret Service frequencies (from an
> issue of Monitoring Times), a copy of a magazine article that listed
> Secret Service codenames for President Reagan (dated 1983), and a
> material that the Secret Service had suspected was C4 explosives but
> which later turned out not to be.
>
> For some reason they feel COMPELLED TO MENTION THIS AT EACH HEARING as
> if C4 had actually been found when in fact the substance was something
> dentists use: DENTURE MOLD (the owner of the house was a dentist).
>
> The Secret Service specifically complained about his affiliation with
> 2600 Magazine (not a secret and not a reason to label someone a criminal).
[
The Secret Service is apparently unaware that 2600 magazine is the
world's preeminent above-ground hacker zine, subscribed to by members
of security departments all over Wall Street (at the least).

It is filled with fascinating information, highly useful for securing
one's systems. Here's a random sample factoid from 2600: although
on-site company switches are commonly programmed to block '900' number
calls, there is a hole in the programming logic that always lets '555'
exchange numbers through. ("Information wants to be free") Companies
tha