Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] network scanning?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> It wouldn't be in any country?

I have designed a giant boat that is affordable (compared to any other
type of boat) to make and should be very VERY hard to sink. I want to make
it big enough to run my own commune and data haven on.

> Because you're so well-armed?

No..  just because paranoid doesn't mean the same thing as afraid. It's
like the difference between fearless and brave. They are similar but very
different.

> Actually, that isn't how it works.  Your idea makes sense, but I'm happy
> to report that it is wrong.  For some strange reason, criminals tend to
> stick mostly to their own neighborhoods.  In my neighborhood by Limerick
> and Wynfield, we didn't have any creepy bad guys around (after Jon King
> moved, that is ... kidding!! :-)  Really, no creeps, all good.

Funny.. the people I grew up all ripped off the better neighborhoods. Why
steal a Ford when you can steal a BMW?

> One way to tell is that you are very easy to kill and you are still alive.
> So they weren't trying very hard.  Another way to tell is that you are not
> important enough to be worth killing (maybe that's where you'll argue with
> me).  I don't know what they'd have against you, but it isn't enough to
> warrant an assassination.

Probably true but then I suspect the govt of being like a giant cat and
I'm a mouse. Maybe they'll wait il my life stops sucking and then kill
me. :)

> How would they know how good you are, and just how good are you?  You
> might be good at both of those things, but I doubt that you are so good at
> them that the government (if they knew about it) would even want to keep a
> close eye on you, never mind assassinate you.  I don't think I've ever
> heard of a government assassination of a citizen (Ruby Ridge, I know, but
> it was an accident) -- so I really don't think they're going to start with
> you, even if you are as dangerous and important as you seem to believe you
> are.

It's the government. If they're really that good would you hear about
it? Of course not. They'd probably say they caught you commiting a crime
and make it look like they were defending themselves. It doesn't have to
be any big government agency that does it.. even a single person is
enough. I've known two women (on different occassions) raped and killed by
cops so I have no faith in the police of government.

> What crimes have you committed?

Nothing horrible.. mostly teenage pranks.. I grew up with stupid criminal
typs as friends and they had the bright idea of using their geek friend to
make them much better than any other criminal gang in the area.. dunno how
well it worked but heh it isn't every bunch of troubled teens that know
how to steal someone identity and commit fraud and not be caught or that
use explosives to attack the other lil gangs turf. Usually I wasn't
directly involved but always came up with the clever ideas that everyone
else got in trouble for. Is probably why I'm the only one never arrested.
The worst I was caught at was gambling and game rigging and that was more
amussing to the cops than anything. I was forbidden to ever come back to
church camp too. :)

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