From: thug@phantom.com (Murdering Thug)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 10:30:31 PST
To: gtoal@an-teallach.com
Subject: Re: "Root Canal" questions
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> In article <00541.2835966052.614@washofc.cpsr.org> dsobel@washofc.cpsr.org writes:
>  >   "Root Canal" questions
>  > BTW, anyone have ideas about that name!?
> 
> Having just been through this procedure (UK National Health, $70), I can
> tell you - It's all about *Deep Drilling*.  Presumably for data, in this
> case.  And it hurts.
> 
> G
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Having just been informed that I'm to undergo this procedure in 4 days
time, I really really appreciate you telling me that it hurts.

Seriously, I think "Root Canal" must mean what it says.  Root Canal. A
canal is a channel, a pathway.  Root, in unix terminoligy means one who
can read anything on a system.  Thus Root Canal would allow the FBI to
have a channel with full read privilages to all information in a system,
namely the phone system.  Root Canal therefore is the same as Big Brother
in Orwellian terminology.


Thug