Of rats and the Commodore 64...

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Fri Jul 22 16:51:49 CDT 2005


At 04:36 PM 7/22/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>Sounds like some sort of coded Al Qaeda message to me.

There's a new provision of the renewed Patriot Act that says
you're a terrorist if you use a non-DRM-protected CPU to
decode encrypted messages like palindromes.  In other words,
antique computers are now outlawed as terrorist devices.
Especially if you have a funny name.

- John



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