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From: megabyte_me@rocketmail.com (Belial)
Subject: Re: Aol 4.0 - This is not spam!
Date: 1997/10/30
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> > your entire hard drive, snooping through any (yes, any) piece of
> > information on your hard drive.  It could also read your password and
> > log in information and store it deep in the program code.  Well, all
> > previous versions, whether you like it or not, have done this to a
> > certain extent, but only with files you downloaded.  As me and my
> > colleagues discovered, with the new version, anytime you are signed on
> > to AOL, any top AOL executive, any AOL worker, who has been sworn to
> > secrecy regarding this feature, can go into your hard drive and
> retrieve
> so we figured our last hope to reveal this madness
> before it effects the people was starting something similar to a chain
> letter, this letter you are reading.  
> 
> 1. Forward this letter to as many people as you can (not just friends
> and family, as many as you can!)
Chain spam mail.
> 2. Tell people who aren't on America Online in person, especially
> important people (Private Investigators, Government workers, City
> Council)
This should increase your standing in the community. Hope they let you 
off of the fourth floor soon.

I hope no one takes this seriously. I could go on and on about how the 
technical aspects of this are bull but it would take me all day. I have 
two four gig scsi drives on my system. This guy claims that they could 
get on my system through my 33.6 TCP/IP connection and actually find 
something they could use, please. What do you think would happen to your 
bandwidth when they started a download. You don't think people would 
notice their hard drives spinning away with no apparent activity. What 
would they do with a pwd file anyway. Those files of any importance are 
kept on the server. This is exactly what he describes at the last. A hoax 
and a chain letter. No I don't use AOL. Never have and never will for 
other reasons. I read the alt.2600 groups but stop in to look at the cool 
pictures.
Belial