NODE 43fcf375Re: (fwd) Clipper and Tipper on Route 666
owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley)Wed, 10 Nov 93 12:58:59 PST
> To: tcmay@netcom.netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
> Tim May suggests we called the "Data Superhighway"
>
> > "Route 666."
>
> In Unix file permissions 666 means the file is readable by
> world. Apropos for a panoptic net where encryption is banned
> or "Clipped".
There is an actual route 666, its in New Mexico or Arizona.
A t shirt manufacturer here in SF prints up a version
of the sign on a black shirt.
one of my favorite *cruising* shirts BTW :-)
LUX ./. owen