To the very smart person that Torpedoed all my Linux Installations..

[Corey Burger]

As others have said, I think it would be best if this entire thread
could be put to bed and forgotten about.

Corey

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> On 14/06/2010 3:05 AM, Leigh Honeywell wrote:
>> On 10-06-13 06:42 AM, alfred wrote:
>>> Well from my experience, I don't have to know, whom you are, I don't
>>> have to spend money to try to find what rock you are hiding under, or
>>> what hole you are hiding in. Why, well I noticed over time that people
>>> that teach me lessons the way you have, have a nasty habit of getting
>>> very sick, and a nasty habit of just Dropping Dead.
>>
>> Hey folks, let's keep the unsubtle death threats off the mailing list, ok?
>>
>> CC'ing the admins of the list personally.  This isn't ok.  "Open
>> community" doesn't mean that this kind of behaviour from list members is
>> acceptable.
>>
>> -Leigh
>>
> Hi Leigh:
>
> I've read many of your Posts over the years and I know you helped
> thousands of people. It's not a Dead Threat, but more of a warning!
>
> As an Example: On a Summer Job I worked on an Airport, with the DOT.
> They had me testing Equipment, that had been shipped. Wires get loose
> inside this stuff. No one said how many I was supposed to test in a day.
> So after a few weeks I was doing some 60 things a day, No Sweat! Then
> these three Wise Guys appeared, told me they did three a day. I didn't
> get the hint. Had no idea what they were going on about. When I finished
> all that testing they put me on Cataloging a Transmitter. I pulled it
> apart piece by piece, until I got to the 1 1/2 inch Diameter Wires that
> needed to be unattached. I brought a Combination Lock from home and put
> it on the breaker that supplied the power. One of the Three Wise Guys
> sawed the lock off during Lunch, and turned the power on while I was
> undoing the First Wire. Some Tension on it made it hit the side panel,
> and that put a three foot hole in it. I woke up on the floor 60 feet
> away! The police came, and tried to find out whom sawed the lock. They
> never did! I left and went back to school.
>
> A year or two later I was in Montreal visiting someone, and saw two of
> the Three Wise Guys on the sidewalk. So I asked them about that police
> investigation, then asked them about where was Wise Guy Number 3. They
> told me that 6 weeks after I left there, Wise Guy Number Three, had an
> Electrical Accident, he Burst into Flames. So I said "guess we know now
> whom sawed the lock!"
>
> This seems to be sort of a theme in my life, all kinds of people that
> tried to kill me, or mess with me. I usually do nothing, don't even
> think about getting even, and then hear much later, on that they Died,
> or got some disease, or died in the same way, that they tried to kill
> me. Sort of comes with the territory of being a Nerd. So it's not a
> Threat, but a warning. I don't know how it works Leigh, I just hear
> about the results, and they are not pretty!
>
> Well you got some activity there now! I was just getting real fed up,
> Hackers don't leave tracks. John Gill I know now was not doing the Bad
> stuff. He was from this list. That's was whom the Torpedo Post was meant
> for. James got on my Nerves with Nerd Bashing, so that tl;dr post was
> about defending myself against what he had to offer me. Guess I'll never
> know whom the hacker was. If things go they way they do, in a sort time,
> that person will no longer be bothering anyone. The theme is still going
> on, and I have no way of knowing how to stop it, so I have to tell
> people sometimes, that it can be a bit dangerous, better to find someone
> Else's Computer to mess with. I'd much rather have it so that, they at
> least get a second chance, so that they have some time to correct what
> they did, to me and become a somewhat better person.
>
> In that light perhaps you can give me that chance! You seem to be either
> officially or unofficially some sort of Authoritarian type of person,
> and I wrote this post so that you might understand my take on things.
>
> Alfred!
>
> I'll try to keep it to Ubuntu
>
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