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To: Michael who wrote (2248)	10/5/2000 8:11:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12247

Irwin's notebook being stolen and the worries about the information seem a bit silly. Once upon a time, Shell mistakenly sent all their top secret lubricant formations to BP Oil [in New Zealand]. The person who opened the thing from Shell came in to me excitedly when they saw what it was. I pondered it for a while and casually looked through it. In the end, I think we just sent it back to Shell [after photocopying it just in case there was valuable information we might want]. There wasn't really anything we could do with the information. Wading through it all wouldn't tell us anything we couldn't deduce already. It would just be a waste of time sorting through it all to find whether there was anything we could do with it which was useful. We'd already wasted photocopying time and paper and ink [but did have fun getting the 'crown jewels']. I can't really think of anything which Irwin would have in his notebook computer which will be a problem for Q!. It might even be an advantage. Crooks need to hide stuff in a big way. Honest people have less reason to hide stuff. It's often for the comfort of other parties to keep things private. Here is some top secret information which might be in the notebook: Royalties paid by different parties. So what if everyone knows what they are? Sure, there are privacy agreements, but if they are breached, he didn't do anything wrong by somebody stealing his puter from right under his nose. Emails to colleagues about negotiations with China. Okay, if China knows what he said to colleagues, so what? It will simply persuade them that they are getting a good deal. If emails include top secret military communications from Clinton saying that they bombed China deliberately so could Q! please give a good deal to China to get them back on board trade negotiations and Clinton will give Q! a big military Globalstar order, then so what? China already thinks the bombing was deliberate. Anybody can see that there are strong links between Q! and the USA military [Condor etc] and US government. There might be stacks of CDMA code which shouldn't go into China's hands - but code moves so fast, that by the time China wades through all the code, it will have moved on to new styles of HDR protocols. Probably the main thing that people would get out of the notebook is good stuff along the lines of what a decent, reputable, honest, intelligent, tough negotiator Irwin is. They'll get an inside view of some glitches, worries and maybe family and friend's addresses etc which nutcases should not have and are unlikely to get anyway from the theft. It's a bit like my computer - I'm pretty sure the SEC investigated my allegedly illegal GGMDM and included searching through my computer [because it started spinning up all by itself one night half an hour after some USA woman phoned on Memorial Day, hanging up after asking "Is this Maurice Winn"]. It amused me to think some SEC people reading screeds of rants, looking for something bad. They'd be cursing the Mad Mouth from the South and wondering where the heck the 'good' stuff was. It didn't worry me because I hide all my bomb-making, stock-scamming and child and animal pornography and GSRS[TM] secrets on my notebook computer which I have hidden under the desk here where I can keep an eye on it...hey, it's GONE!!! Oh no! Now somebody will be able to find out all my secrets and tell the world. I suspect that Irwin's notebook wouldn't have a lot of stuff that anyone could do much with. The stock price doesn't show a lot of worry! Sure, the thief might buy the stock because of all the great plans coming, but anybody can see that for themselves. I've pointed out the array of technological marvels which Q! is pretty sure to develop. I suppose it's an advantage to actually see for sure that that is in the plans, so the thief might be rewarded by a stock price benefit. No worries! Actually, the thief is perhaps a bit worried having the FBI on the trail and they'd better not give away state secrets which might be in the computer. If they jeopardize USA security by giving away certain information, their theft might be unrewarding for them and hazardous to their health. Maybe somebody put it in a draw in the podium when they were moving microphones and stuff off the stage? Has anyone looked there? The theft might have been a ploy by Q! to show why their encryption and CDMA technology is so important, with server side security via WirelessKnowledge. It has got a LOT of publicity and I guess that a lot of companies are upgrading their security and will pay serious money for security. Q! will bring out a 'secure system' and use the Dr Jacobs ThinkPad theft as a promotional tool. Mqurice