I guess the bell tower experience was extremely meaningful to Stoll, because I heard him speak in Berkeley in 1998 or 1999 and he also told that story at the en

I guess the bell tower experience was extremely meaningful to Stoll, because I heard him speak in Berkeley in 1998 or 1999 and he also told that story at the end of his lecture. Maybe it's his equivalent of Richard Stallman's experience with the unmodifiable printer drivers.