At 9:13 PM 7/2/96, snow wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, snow wrote:
Gain control of the power grid (I don't know how possible this is) and selectively brown out certain sections of the city during peak demand periods. Make it obvious, then do the preceeding idea.
Ummm... Just in case anyone is thinking it right now, NO, I didn't. If this outage was deliberate, I had nothing to do with it. I was just postulating possibilities.
Hmmhhh....I post about the "Net and Terrorism" on Sunday, and the Viper Militia and their plans to blow up several courthouses in Phoenix are revealed a few hours later....Snow posts about using computers to knock out the power grid, and a few hours later power goes out over 15 western states.... Coincidence? I think not. But we can test this hypothesis: "Alien spaceship images will appear in thousands of darkened rooms and will trigger mass hysteria." We'll find out tomorrow if Cypherpunks really do have the Power. --Tim Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."