At 5:40 PM -0800 12/6/96, Steve Schear wrote:
I heard an almost identical story from a security guard at DEFCON IV last july in Las Vegas. He said it happened in the hotel where he was working (not the Monte Carlo, which had just opened) in 1995. The management managed to cover the event up and it never, according to him, appeared in the local papers.
| >>> A friend of mine from UT passed this story onto me from the "Daily | >>> Texan" - the University of Texas newspaper. Apparently it occured | >>> during Fall Premier -- a UT tradition that is a celebration of the | >>> end of midterms. ...
This whole event actually happened to a friend of someone a friend of mine knows, or at least he heard about from a friend, or maybe he read about it one of Brunwand's (sp?) "urban legend" books ("Choking Doberman," and several others. The more things change.... --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."