Re: [OT] New Anti-Terrorism Law makes "hacking" punishable by life in prison

[jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>]

It's in the archives now, so the purpose is served. The sociopaths using 
the parent thread have just lost their toy.

J

Jesper Juhl wrote:

>On 7/2/05, jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org> wrote:
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>>OK.  I ask for this thread and associated posts to be removed, is this
>>is allowed.  The Provo Daily Herald and KSL Channel 5
>>news asked me questions about it.  I did not author it.
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>I'd say that that request is damn near impossible. First of all, as
>Randy has already pointet out kernel.org does not maintain email
>archives, secondly, the thread will be archived on a number of
>different sites outside kernel.org's control - there are *many* lkml
>archives on the 'net. In addition to LKML archives you'd also have to
>contact news sites that may have written articles on the thread and
>copied the message(s) in part or in full, and then there is any number
>of search engines that may have cached the thread and sites like The
>Wayback Machine that may have cached the lkml archives or the news
>sites etc etc etc... And finally you have a huge number of unknown
>people who may have kept personal LKML archives on their private
>machines going back several years - there's no way to identify those
>people and certainly no way to get them to remove a specific thread
>from their personal archives.
>Once a message is posted to a public mailing list (especially one as
>widely archived & commented on as LKML) it is practically impossible
>to get rid of - there's always going to be someone somewhere that has
>a copy.
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