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The M-x spook feature of emacs is not a new thing! I was just looking at the code for that, 5 minutes before I read your comment. It was written in May 1987. A
by ordinary 13y ago
The M-x spook feature of emacs is not a new thing!
I was just looking at the code for that, 5 minutes before I read your comment. It was written in May 1987. A comment near the top says "Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler!". It's interesting how our preceptions of this kind of counter-surveillance tool (primitive as it is) has changed from "OK, man, that's just crazy talk" to "Huh, I guess it really is happening!".
- keithwinstein 13y agoThank you for looking that up! I had never read the source code. You inspired me to go read this Jargon File entry, which is amusingly quaint: http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/NSA-line-eater.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/N/NSA-line-eater.html
- mabhatter 13y agoSettle down little froggie. Look at the pretty bubbles!