Tags and previous owners (was RE: [rescue] What do you guys think about this 4D/35)

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, rwalkup wrote:

> > I used to own a NeXT Cube that I bought directly from an NSA employee.
> > 
> > It had a big sticker on it that said something like "Unclassified computer -
> > do not store classified data on this computer" or whatnot.
> > 
> > He inadvertantly left a few Mathematica notebooks on his machine.  It was
> > kind of neat to see how he solved problems like that.
> > 
> > Then I felt bad about having the data, so I deleted it.

> Too much gin, tequila, and grapefruit juice, but that guy ought to be there
> with (confessed spy) Richard Hanson.  It's inattentive jerks like him that
> put my shipmates at greater risk than we already were.

Hmm.  Seems to me that if it an unclassified computer, then what he left
on it should be unclassified, so you have no complaint against the guy.

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Joshua D. Boyd