328 DEAR HACKER
328 DEAR HACKER
Dear 2600: Let me start off by saying that I understand that the extent of your
involvement in so much legal controversy must require an immense amount of money. Of course, the EFF cannot cover everything, but I am sure that by lowering the price of 2600 you would get a lot more readers. $7.15 CAN is far too expensive, and everyone with at least a little common sense knows very well that your production and distri- bution costs are not that high.
hemlock
First off, we’re not jacking up our newsstand rates to raise funds for the lawsuit. Our price has been the same for two years and our subscription rate is the same as it was all the way back in 1989! As for the Canadian dollar, it converts to less than 65 cents of a U.S. dollar. That means you’re actually paying less than people in the States. For a long time we were selling 2600 at the wrong exchange rate and we actually wound up owing our distributor money for sales. You’re welcome to use this common sense of yours and try to do what we do for less money with- out any advertising. We think you’ll find that talk is about the only thing that’s still cheap.
Dear 2600: Personally, I think the FBI or CIA is tracing what IP addresses log on
to your website, and what emails come through your servers. Have a nice day thinking about that!
Gino
It’s good to know that if we ever run out of things to worry about, we can call on you to replenish the supply.
Dear 2600: “The greatest injustice in the prosecution of Kevin Mitnick is
revealed when one examines the actual harm to society (or lack
OUR BIGGEST FANS
A drunk driver doesn’t “intend” to kill, and may not on most nights. But when your little girl is killed by a drunk driver, you want them put away. “Intent”? He broke the law. If he was only “curious” and came into my home to look around, or hack into my PC to “look around” that would be a legal and moral violation of my right to privacy! If it were my business, he’d be violating the trust and privacy of all my clients. So, f*ck you! You’re criminals who only justify your own self centered actions. Which one of you has ever “stopped” a hacker from ripping off the public? Assholes.
Ben We get so many letters like this and they almost always go down the same road
of self-righteous indignation terminating in pure unadulterated ignorance. Nothing convinces us more that we’re on the right side.
Dear 2600:
I think it’s great what you guys are doing... causing the youth of America to lose morale for this great country. Honestly, do you actu- ally believe you’re doing good for the world? If you don’t like America, move to another country but don’t brainwash the teens here with your ideas of hatred toward authority. You only fuel the already rebellious fire within them that causes nothing but trouble for the whole country. Please, you only make things worse.
JohnG54429 Exactly the kind of pep talk we need to make us try twice as hard.
Dear 2600:
I have been reading your magazine for several years now and find it to be generally informative and useful to my profession. But I have become increasingly disturbed by your apparent politics. I fully expect you to excoriate me in the same smug, condescending manner you take with all other writers who disagree with you, but I simply must