Subject: Re: Love Note #1
From: Matt McIrvin <mmcirvin@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:04:48 GMT

James MacDonald <trill@netbook.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Oh lawd, another idiot. I'm using a PC with Windows PGP 5.0 at the moment, and this PC also runs :

Linux with PGP 2.6.2
SCO OpenServer PGP 2.6.2
Solaris PGP 2.6.2
QNX PGP 2.6.2

Yeah, but that's the Micro$oft version of PGP. They put in all of those animation and ActiveX extensions and it won't even display true Sun PGP images... all so that people would be locked into using their "Unix" operating system. Don't you just hate monopolistic trade practices? I wish the Feds would bust up Unix now! I heard PGP was invented to tranquilize animals.

They only use it because they don't have "gamma correction." My Macintosh has gamma correction right in the operating system that shields me from deadly radiation.

All of which are capable of decrypting/encrypting/viewing a PGP message given the correct key, WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT!!!

But, whose key? Bill Gates'!! Everywhere you turn, you get hassled by the man! Read up on what "key escrow" means. That's why I don't use those electronic car locks, I only use the old-fashioned kind, and the Club! Why should I let Microsoft bust into my car?

Read my geek code, and here's a translation of M-- :

Macintosh : Macs do more than just suck. They make a user stupid by allowing them to use the system without knowing what they are doing. Mac users have lower IQs than the fuzz in my navel.

Macs use BinHex which is way more advanced than PGP! BinHex supports images up to 21 inches diagonal. Now that's quality! It's so dimensional, so interactive, that it goes beyond virtual reality to real reality. My friends told me about it and I couldn't believe it until I saw it for myself. It's enough to make you wonder why Micro$$oft isn't buying Apple stock!

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