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To: David Lawrence who wrote (2749)	10/8/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: LastShadow	Respond to of 32887

Well, its a whole heck of a lot easier to get that information on some of us...you could call my ex wife...

To: David Lawrence who wrote (2749)	10/8/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: Len	Respond to of 32887

Practice Safe Surfing. Leslie Nielsen in a full body condom comes to mind. Safe Surfer Len

To: David Lawrence who wrote (2749)	10/8/1998 11:59:00 PM
From: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32887

David if you saw the private messages this guy is sending out...you wouldnt be so cavalier about his threats and telling people to keep their paranoia in check.... I wouldnt want this whacko getting my information and he already claims he has FredE's tax information, social security number, address...etc etc etc....and that he plans on doing something with it.... I have seen the seamier side of human nature and what can happen...and it is nothing to be cavalier about... try having a killer get your information off the net because you were careless.....have that person stalk you..and kill you...think you would feel too safe knowing someone that this had happened too..... It only takes ONE whacko, David. And if someone has your name and the right sources..they can find out everything about you....it's not very hard to do... That is why I dont understand why people use their real names on SI. and somehow I dont think it is as difficult as you make it out to be to track down someones name.. I have already had several people write me and tell me how it can be done...in various ways...

To: David Lawrence who wrote (2749)	10/12/1998 9:18:00 PM
From: Toby Zidle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32887

The bottom line: Practice Safe Surfing. Be careful, but keep the paranoia in check. You think we're excessively paranoid?? Obviously you haven't taken heed of Joe B.'s warning in Msg #2743 that the federal government has installed clandestine taps in all computer monitors. Unfortunately, Joe doesn't know the half of it. That little green light on the monitor that almost everyone thinks is a 'power on' indicator is, in fact, a miniature camera that lets the federal government know which of us self-administer certain sexually deviant behaviors while in online chat rooms. This information then is fed into tax files, social security records, and baby-sitting profiles. All computer maintenance technicians know about these cameras, but they hold their jobs only because they have top security clearance. If they reveal the secrets of electronic equipment green lights (and more importantly, red lights), they know they will be stripped of their security clearances and relegated to the role of welfare recipient. (Currently, 27% of welfare recipients are former federal security personnel who have lost their clearances.) So there is no such thing as being overparanoid! Interesting factoid: Stanford paleontologists uncovered the planet's earliest conspiracy while studying coal and fossilized wood during World War II. For obvious reasons, the government suppressed these studies and only a few aged scientists can still recall this work. About 385 million years ago, when plant life existed on land but animal life was restricted to the marine environment, a species of highly intelligent, mobile tropical vine was warring against an intercontinental society of very leafy ferns. It was a battle of extinction vs survival and the vines were winning, overrunning everything in sight. A military tribunal of ferns and their various plant allies invented the Earth's first biological weapon. They cloned numerous species of OXYGEN-exuding plants and poisoned the Earth's atmosphere in the process. Lamentably, they could not shut off the process and reduced the surviving generations of plant life to a vegetative state. The shame of it all is that the adolescent vines of that age were very sensitive to the 'blackhouse' effect and reported it to their elders. The response they received was that 'there is an excess of paranoia developing here'. Too bad! Still,.... animal life on Earth would not have developed, had it not been for this biological warfare gone bad. So don't tell us to ignore our paranoid instincts. We have to pay attention to those clandestine federal taps in our computer monitors and to the green light minicams. Good night, all. And take care never to fall asleep with headphones on. They have been designed to record your dreams digitally and store them in microprocessors which can be queried remotely by automobiles passing innocently down your street. We don't yet know for sure who is behind this conspiracy. One theory says it's run by Cajun separatists. Another is that it's a Market Maker plot.