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To: Phil Jacobson who wrote (26385)	3/31/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (4) of 42771

Melissa Scores BIG for Microsoft...... >>Then today I heard someone figured out the alias of the person who created it by tracing the bug back to the same person who created a bunch of documents on hacker sites. How? By using that document user ID code we are talking about on this thread last week! I don't remember the hacker's alias but they're sure that the same guy created Melissa. The information has been sent to the FBI and they are investigating. It only took a week for an example of the MSFT privacy problem to be exploited by the FBI to work a case that's now publicized nationwide. Unbelievable.>> Ok the race is on. Score: Government/Corporate interests.....................1 Individual privacy............................................0 As in the physical world, the bad guys define the lowest reaches of rules and laws - all in the name of protecting the public interest, etc. But this thing has much deeper roots. In the 80's the DEA and other local drug enforcement depts received new powers to confiscate private property to pay for the war against drugs. Again, the bad guys open new doors of opportunity for government bodies to walk through all in the name of protecting the common good. With technology, common good people can do a heck of a lot more than government can ever dream of doing. But I see these little, basic freedoms being challenged in whirl of judgement against this or that virtual red zone. Melissa is such a red zone. No one wants to take the first step so govt. steps in and the MSFT GUID # watermark is suddenly cast in an entirely different light. So now we have a new form of copdom on the rise - the rise of the virtual agent/cop who is out to make virtual domains safe from ourselves. A few more Melissa's and the US Government will be permanently camped out in Redmond. Does Gates have any info about the missing FBI files., Rose Law firm billing records or the Canadian/Ark. Prison system tainted blood disaster???. Gate's has the entire world over a barrell with those watermarks. An Arkansan couldn't have fixed this any better. Destroy the evidence?? NOT!

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