#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/09/28/?...
Irony "over"
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vs "Is it, though?"
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Biz Software Alliance offers "30-day truce"
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& @accidentalp.bsky.social - the early days:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_dept...
![In these terrible times, it's good to watch the tech
community put its problems aside, and supply what we were
all so desperately short of: plenty of wild unsolicited
opinions. After those first few hours of awful shocked
silence - what a relief to be interrupted by the CEO of
CoffeeCup Software, producers of an innocuous Windows HTML
editor, e-mailing his 1.2 million customer base to "call for
[the responsible] country's complete destruction and
annihilation". And at the end of that fateful day, noted
hacker Eric S. Raymond rained his thoughts like fresh water,
revealing that those who "disarmed all the non-terrorists on
those airplanes ... bear some moral responsibility". Thanks
too to BYTE's Jerry Pournelle, who slowly toughened his
demands from an early request that /usr/bin/laden be handed
over "bound and chained", to Thursday's demand that Nablus,
Gaza, Baghdad *and* Damascus be razed to the ground; to the
Evening Standard infowar expert who warned that "inflamed
young men" could escalate the conflict by releasing "cyber
viruses, crashing our computers ... from council houses in
Bradford"; and kindly John Keegan in the Telegraph, who
wrote that ISPs should ban encryption among their users, and
those who refused must be "destroyed with cruise
missiles". And on through the lonely nights, as net.folk on
chat traded credulous rumours and confused geopolitics, and
Nostradamus buffs mulled seriously over a quatrain that,
sadly, was probably invented by a skeptic to show how *any*
random phrase could end up a doomladen prophecy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yprbwsd7vrg4jh2zsp4rr6wu/bafkreieetuzbcz3v4rzsegkhtz4qn5b7dogwljgzhar4q7o5iwrw6tomx4)
