ULotD? Cuban Tattoos.

[Tim May]

At 2:08 PM -0800 1/27/98, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>A bit o'apocrypha for a Monday evening...

>Forwarded-by: Arunas Norvaisa <arunas at witty.com>
>
>There was a guy in Florida, Cuban by nationality, who had been unable to
>get US citizenship and was due to be deported. A couple of MIT students,
>who had heard about this guy and were after a lark, hopped a plane down to
>Florida and took this guy to a tatoo studio. What they tatooed on to him
>was the DES algorithm, in some computer readable form. Thus rendering the
>guy unexportable. The US government offered to scrape the tatoos off, but
>they guy's lawyers screamed something about human rights abuses.  The way I
>heard it, the guy was eventually granted citizenship.

Utter bullshit.

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--Tim May

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