From: thug@phantom.com (Murdering Thug)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 15:52:27 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: tapping
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Phiber Optik writes:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > [forwarded from elsewhere]
> > > 
> > > [From Data Communications, January 1993]
> > > 
> > > INVENTION CUTS CABLING TIES

[stuff deleted]

> > > 
> > > works with both shielded and unshielded twisted-pair copper cabling, is
> > > small enough to fit on laptop PC internal adapters, and is capable of
> > > handling all common LAN speeds, Watson says.  The internationally patented
> > > invention works just as well with voice signals.  Predictably, it already
> > > has been licensed for use in telephone surveillance equipment.
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Mike Watson rediscovers inductance, and the inductive tap.
> Film at 11.

And patents it!  Gee, I wonder if I patent the RF transmittion, and start
charging licensing fees like Watson does with inductance.  Hell, some guy
has a patent on using XOR in making inverse cursors on CRTs. 

Thug