🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <199312021310.NAA07120@an-teallach.com>, gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal) writes:
|> In article <064303Z02121993@anon.penet.fi> an54588@anon.penet.fi writes:
|> :	A lot of people think that PGP encryption is unbreakable and that the
|> :NSA/FBI/CIA/MJ12 cannot read their mail. This is wrong, and it can be a deadly
|> :mistake. In Idaho, a left-wing activist by the name of Craig Steingold was
|> :arrested  _one day_ before he and others wee to stage a protest at government
|> :buildings; the police had a copy of a message sent by Steingold to another
|> :activist, a message which had been encrypted with PGP and sent through E-mail.
|> :
|> :	Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to
|> :allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author,
|> :Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he
|>
|> Ho ho ho!  'Craig Steingold'.  'Paul Zimmerman'.  Very amusing.

             I thought the kids name was Shergold
     I don't recognize zimmerman.

|>
|> Unfortunately you posted this joke to a few other groups who might not
|> recognise the humor in it.  Why didn't you go the whole hog and include
|> alt.folklore.urban too???
|>
|> Just in case anyone was taken in by this, *ITS A SPOOF* guys.  Very
|> definitely so.  Mildly amusing as long as no-one actually falls for it.
|>
|> G
|>

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