From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:46:39 +0800
To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
Subject: Re: "Smack" the lawyer of your choice...but smack!
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On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Anonymous wrote:

> "Smak" delivered an encrypted CD containing over 100,000 stolen 
> credit card numbers. After the validity of the credit card information
> was confirmed through decryption of the data on the CD, "Smak" was 
> taken into custody by the FBI. 
> 
>   And the 100,000 people were immediately notified that their credit
> cards had been compromised? I fucking doubt it. Better to screw over
> 100,000 citizen-units than expose the incompetence of a few companies
> and the government's fight against strong encryption and computer
> security.

I was recently notified by a bank that issued one of my credit cards that 
my card number had been sold, along with thousands of other account 
numbers, to an undercover FBI agent. The bank canceled my account, opened 
a new one, and overnighted a replacement card. No big deal, and no loss 
to me.

OTOH, it *might* have been in response to a different incident. Keep 
those paranoid rants coming.

-r.w.