{"id":1102,"date":"2011-02-26T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2011-02-26T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T16:40:41","slug":"satanic-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2011\/02\/26\/satanic-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"“Satanic Risks?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, this is funny. I found myself in a backwater folder in my email client, searching for some long-forgotten credentials (came up dry, BTW) when I ran across some uuencoded messages. That’s right! When’s the last time you even thought<\/em> about uuencode? Yeah, me too.<\/p>\n

This particular message was dated 12 January 1998, sent from my personal email address to an address within the company I worked for at the time. It was funny then, it must still be funny now. The “don’t be evil” company hadn’t yet been invented; Larry and Sergey had already come up with the Google name but hadn’t yet received their first cash infusion or even formally formed their little company. (ref. Google history<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Satanic Risks?
\n“Lindsay F. Marshall”
\nMon, 15 Dec 1997 11:33:31 +0000 (GMT)<\/p>\n

In the *Letters* page of this month’s *Fortean Times* (FT106, January 1998)
\nthere is a letter entitled Brotherly Communications, raising the privacy
\nrisks of mandating GPS in every mobile phone — which it claims will be the
\ncase in the USA in 1999. However, the letter then goes on to say the
\nfollowing:<\/p>\n

> Much of the data concerning mobile phone paranoia (or the enhanced 911
\n> service) comes from the publications of Lucent — also known as Bell
\n> Laboratories — AT&T and Sandia National Laboratories.<\/p>\n

> Lucent seems an odd sort of name — Luc(iferic) Ent(erprises) as people on
\n> a witch hunt might suggest — but when it comes to software they have a
\n> real-time operating system called Inferno, written in a language called
\n> Limbo, with a communications protocol called Styx. Reading the product
\n> literature is less like engineering and more like indoctrination. The head
\n> offices are at 666 5th Avenue in New York. The company motif is a fiery
\n> red circle that might represent a bull’s eye, the star Aldebaran in the
\n> constellation Taurus — also associated with the Egyptian god Set …<\/p>\n

> Lucent has been doing a lot of recruiting recently — their headline
\n> product is something called Airloop(tm) which looks like a cellular phone
\n> microcell incorporating voice and data. It is controlled by a little box
\n> that I expect we’ll be seeing everywhere, called the BSD2000 (Lucent seem
\n> to have a millennial flavour in their product numbers).<\/p>\n

Lucent is, of course, at http:\/\/www.lucent.com, and the *Fortean Times* is at
\nhttp:\/\/www.forteantimes.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, this is funny. I found myself in a backwater folder in my email client, searching for some long-forgotten credentials (came up dry, BTW) when I ran across some uuencoded messages. That’s right! When’s the last time you even thought about uuencode? Yeah, me too. This particular message was dated 12 January 1998, sent from … Continue reading “Satanic Risks?”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}