Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> writes:
[Charles is an author, a Wired contributor, and a friend. --Declan]
No wonder that lying forger Declan is friends with the lying psychopath Charles Platt. Declan, you threatened to post the transcript of my interview - please go ahead, so everyone can confirm that you forged quotes from me. Sample e-mail from Charles Platt, discussing his view of the polices: Received: (from cp@localhost) by panix.com (8.8.5/8.7/PanixU1.3) id AAA21949; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:43:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:43:01 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Platt <cp@panix.com> To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, Charles Platt <cp@panix.com> Subject: Re: PGP Security In-Reply-To: <5PTX4D3w165w@bwalk.dm.com> Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970322003754.21017C-100000@panix.com> Errors-To: cp@panix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Suppose I want to bet $1000 that Chris Platt's cat, "Ben", won't be assassinated until the end of March in some excruciatingly painful way
Okay, Vulis, that's it, you have made an explicit threat in a public forum, I know where you live, I know your phone number, in fact I once spoke to you on the phone, and I will be suggesting to the rather slow witted people at my local police precinct that you have already demonstrated unstable, threatening behavior toward many people, giving me good reason to believe that you are capable of assault. This is the last you will hear from me online. Anything further will be stated in person. Sample usenet articles by Charles Platt: Subject: Re: electricity torture? From: cp@panix.com (Charles Platt) Date: 1997/01/31 Message-Id: <5crvmh$jhe@panix.com> Newsgroups: alt.torture I suggest an enhancement to the basic phone-torture scenario. Buy a cheap answering machine that picks up on the third or fourth ring. Inside the answering machine there is usually a relay that closes when the machine picks up. It might be interesting to adapt that relay to supply an electric shock to the slave. Thus, the slave gets to sit and listen as the phone rings once, twice, a third time ... and of course, sometimes the master hangs up BEFORE the fourth ring, just to make life more interesting. It seems to me, true torture has to entail anticipation and uncertainty. Subject: Re: Orgasm control From: cp@panix.com (Charles Platt) Date: 1997/01/05 Message-Id: <5ap55i$iit@panix.com> Newsgroups: alt.torture Dave & Eddie (dave-ed@dircon.co.uk) wrote:
Has anyone got any experiences, tips or techniques for encouraging and building up to extreme intensity a male's need for orgasm, and then withholding the longed-for and urgently-needed relief of ejaculation - over a very long period of time, and as a torture?
Trouble is, in the long term this tends to result in enlargement of the prostate. Of course that can be a torture in itself (urinary problems etc) and I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, but at least the victim should be aware of these potential long-term penalties. Subject: Re: Elec. Tort. (I was shocked with 220...) From: cp@panix.com (Charles Platt) Date: 1997/02/19 Message-Id: <5egkkm$qbq@panix.com> Newsgroups: alt.torture JBtspflk (jbtspflk@aol.com) wrote:
BTW, I always thought that the telephone ringing signal was 20Hz AC, not DC.
You're right, the ring signal is AC. Old phones used a rectifier that would pass the AC and ring the bell. When the ringing signal is not present, there is a DC potential on the line. This isn't painful but the AC ring signal does, er, give you a shock. This doesn't have much to do with torture, does it? Unless, of course, you regard boredom as a form of torture. "Tonight, my dear, I am going to tie you down--and read interesting facts about the TELEPHONE SYSTEM!" Subject: Re: Hand Crank Generator From: cp@panix.com (Charles Platt) Date: 1997/01/06 Message-Id: <5ashd1$k2m@panix.com> Newsgroups: alt.torture Leonard (ixion@dorsai.org) wrote:
How will this tell me how to effectively use this device? I'm still looking for practical data. Anybody ever use one of these things?
All I can tell you is I used to fool around with one of these things, as a kid, with a friend. As kids, we took turns with one person turning the handle while the other took a wire in each hand. As an adult, I would say this is definitely not such a great idea. I find it hard to believe, however, that you're going to do any harm if the two (dry) conductors touch (dry) skin just a few inches apart. As a previous post said, avoid running current through major organs (heart, brain, etc!). A previous post gave various resistance values for skin. If you want to know how much current the generator will pass through skin, first obtain a potentiometer (variable resistor) that can take a reasonable amount of current--1 watt, say. Use a volt/amp/ohm meter to calibrate the potentiometer--i.e. mark where the knob points for 1000 ohms, 5000 ohms, etc. Now attach one wire from your generator to one side of the potentiometer, link the other side of your potentiometer with your volt/amp/ohm meter, switch the meter to measure CURRENT (amps), and attach the other side of the meter to the other wire of your generator. In other words, the generator, potentiometer, and meter form a closed daisy chain. Crank the handle at different potentiometer settings and see what readings you get from your meter. This will only be an APPROXIMATE guide, and you may want to check the skin resistance of your actual test subject too. Note: all the above advice dates back to stuff I did 25 years ago. I think it's accurate (if it's not, someone will probably flame me anyway); but as with all forms of consensual torture, it might be a good idea to try it on yourself first. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps