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Subject: <nettime> keystone konspiracy
From: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>
Date: 10 Nov 1997 21:01:46 +0100

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[from NTKnow (07/11/97), "*the* weekly high-tech sarcastic
update for the UK"; <http://www.ntk.net/> for more info.]

You're NICed, my sahn! EUGENE KASHPUREFF, founder of
AlterNIC and brave freedom-fighter against the NETWORK
SOLUTIONS conspiracy (along with a bunch of other kooks)
was picked up by the Canadian Mounties and thrown in prison
on Monday, to await possible extradition to the US. Back in
July, Kashpureff exploited a flaw in the BIND DNS software
to hijack visitors to Network Solution's www.internic.net
and re-direct them to his own site - a protest against
NSI's monopoly on domain name registration. At the time,
Kashpureff predicted becoming "a bigger martyr than Phil
Zimmermann". Hardly up there with the Beatles >= Christ
mapping, and we don't recall Zimmermann doing a runner
across the border when the Feds closed in - but it looks
like he's got his wish. The FBI now plan to nab him on
federal wire and computer fraud charges - oh, and unlawful
possession of a suspicious Russian-sounding name.

http://www.codetalker.com/advisories/sni/sni-12.html

- hey, kids! You too can be a martyr (requires BIND 4.9.5)

[heh]-> http://www.httpd.com/cam/ kind of poignant

--
"It was in the nineteenth century that each person began to have the right
to his little box for his little personal decomposition." --M. Foucault

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