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Forged Response to "Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares?"

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From: John Cooley
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00
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Gary McGath <gmcgath@condes.mv.com> wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>Version: 2.6.2
>
>iQBVAwUBL+VTeO4rHMPCLWOFAQFsngH+Jw28/fLQhRePyrwpV9JwsEmczrhBXSvg
>GQMHSb9n8LWl47VR1cQchaAxN4AKhTKoEmST05A4rBvEe4aHVdyuBA==
>=YQlO
>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

My PGP software says that this post didn't come from Gary at all!  Someone's
hacked Gary's account or he's misrepresenting his own PGP verification key
as a head game on us!



jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) wrote:
>(All it does is clutters up the posts with info nobody ever bothers to check.)

Gary McGath <gmcgath@condes.mv.com> wrote:
>FALSE.  When a signed post is from someone whom I'm likely to communicate
>with in the future, and when I have the public key available, I do check the
>signature; it provides a little bit of extra confirmation when the key is
>valid.
>
>So tell us, Cooley, what's the *real* reason you want to make people
>uncomfortable about PGP-signing their messages?

Oh, no.  I've been found out.  No, I'm not posting because I think PGP keys
on everything non-essential is a waste of time.  No, I don't think that PGP
is great for private documents.  No, I don't think PGPing looks graphically
gross.  Actually, I'm a paid shill for Rush Limbaugh in a secret society
of Republican Nazi who want Rush to be our next Furer and we see PGP as
blocking his most rightious advance to world leader.  PGP *must* be stopped
at all costs!  I chant: "For the emperor Rush!" as I plunge into my suicide
Internet attack on the evil PGP proponents!

  - John Cooley

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From: jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley)
Subject: Forged Response to "Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares?"
Date: 1995/06/19
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