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...enabling anyone with a home computer to encode messages so effectively that even the National Security Agency's supercomputers may not be able to read them. One favorite is Boulder, Colorado, programmer Phil Zimmerman's PGP, for Pretty Good Privacy, free to anyone in the U.S. who wants to download it from the Internet or from non-Internet-connected BBSs that carry...
Because I have no life, I stayed in Cambridge for intersession, holed up in my room, playing on the information superhighway for hours on end. I found some fun stuff on the news groups, and decided to download it. I was only going to print the pictures out and send them to Newt Gingrich. Really I was! I'm not at all sexually excited by pictures of women having sex with pigs (or ferrets and chickens either, for that matter)! But then a Crimson reporter called to tell me that anyone could see what I had down-loaded...
UseNet offers one possible avenue for sexually-minded users--the "news groups" resemble electronic bulleting hoards, where Internet users discuss various topics by posting files such as pictures or sounds by encoding them as a text file; other users can download and decode these binary files for display in the privacy of their own home. As we walked down this dirty boulevard, we gawked and gasped at the width and breadth of sexual appetites. Here, we present a significant fraction of the UseNet groups devoted to sexuality in its manifold...el in its many forms. Parental discretion advised...
...fact, it is possible for a user's machine to become infected by a virus through MIME attachments. If you were to use the "view attachments" command in PINE and download to your computer a file attached to art e-mail, that file could conceivably cause damage to your stored files...
...think about that. The only way for a user to obtain a virus through e-mail is by intentionally downloading an attached file. The solution! Don't download attached files sent by people you don't know...