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Week of July 26, 2001

'Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!'
 - Gold Hat, as played by Alfonso Bedoya in 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948)

From: 'Michelle Delio'
To: 'radsoft.net'
Subject: RE: Antipass (Comments on SirCam)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:49:55 -0400


well, i have done a very bad thing, and totally imposed on our
friendship, and I hope you don't hate me.
But i needed, i really needed, a quote on sircam variants this
am, and yours was the best one I had. I used it. without asking
you. I am an evil unethical person, and u probably hate me.
I can still pull it if you let me know ASAP.


From: 'Michelle Delio'
To: 'radsoft.net'
Subject: RE: Antipass (Comments on SirCam)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:09:05 -0400


remember a few weeks back you were mad that the register printed
your letter without permission?

remember i said i always ask for permission?

rememember we were emailing last night about sircam?

I NEEDED an intellegent comment on sircam code this morning.

(said in a very small voice) so used this quote from yr emails
without your permission:

'It won't be easy to create variations on SirCam. The code for
this virus was compiled, written in programming language. It's
not a simple script that a kiddie can play with,' said Rick
Downes, a programmer with Radsoft.

'Whoever wants to make a SirCam variant has to be able to write
their own code which is significantly more difficult than just
tinkering with a line in a script, or running it through a virus
creation kit.'

how bad do you hate me? It was a not-good thing to do, but I am so
overwhelemed here w/ work, and people were screaming at me for
story,and no one could say what u said as good as you said it,
and I couldn't find you.....

if that doesn't make sense, give me yr number and i will call and
explain


Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:19:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: 'radsoft.net'
Subject: RE: http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45570-2,00.html
To: 'Michelle Delio'


> I was wrong. I am sorry. I should have waited. Doesn't help now or
> change anything, but I thought you should know.

I hesitate to ask, but what exactly am I supposed to know?

As for not changing anything, you said you could. Now you say you
can't. That sort of jeopardises your credibility factor, doesn't it?

Anyway, I said I hesitate to ask, and I do. Maybe I should have let
it go - write an editorial on the ethics of journalism and go out
and have a Jack Daniels and let it go.

Well I am not going to have any Jack Daniels, for I don't feel so
deeply affected, but I am going to start polishing up this
editorial.

Maybe you'll want to proof-read it for me later.

R.