Stuff

Well. I’ll bet this lil item is causing concern in “certain circles:”

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - When operators of sex-oriented Web sites gather at the Internext convention starting Sunday in Las Vegas, a major leak at a little New Jersey company is likely to be a big topic.

Freehold-based Too Much Media, which sells accounting software for adult Web sites, told its customers last month that a security breach on its computers allowed hackers to access various adult Web sites' subscriber lists.

Keith Kimmel of Norman, Okla., who runs two Web sites that feature porn, said the breach has the potential to embarrass.

"Would you really want a record floating around the Internet that you subscribe to hardcore bondage?" he asked.

No financial info was breached (like credit card numbers) according to the article. But later on down the page, we see this:

Jim McAnally, who has published porn on the Internet since 1993, said he'd never heard about such a serious breach in the industry.

C’mon, Jim. That isn’t your real name, now… is it? It is? Really? Well, I’ll be danged.

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I had an e-mail conversation with a gentleman by the name of Ron who dropped in to EIP looking for something rather specific, and something I didn’t have. Further research on Ron’s part turned up a web site (page, actually) about Strategic Air Command humor…which Ron was kind enough to forward to me and which I’ll share with you, Gentle Reader. Example:

"Hearts and Minds"
During the Viet Nam War, President Johnson proclaimed that his administration's goal was to "Win the Hearts and Minds" of the Vietnamese people, especially those sympathetic to communist North Viet Nam. SAC B-52's were then showering the country with bombs, and this resulted in the slogan being expanded to, "When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." The airman eventually realized that SAC was applying the same philosophy to them by not permitting them to transfer from the command. That resulted in this unique patch.

Ron was looking for an illustration similar to the patch above. There were entrepreneurial millenary shops all over the Far East back in the day that would whip up patches like this in little or no time…and in mass quantities, too. Every GI worth his salt had at least two or three of ‘em. When I was in Wakkanai our custom patch was a variation on the Old Crow ELINT theme that featured the Crow with his usual lightning bolts in one winged hand, two bottles of Sapporo beer under the other wing, and “Xs” for eyes. The emblem was in keeping with our collective reputation for consuming insane amounts of Sapporo (THE beer of choice) when not intercepting Soviet electronic emanations. I’m hoping there’s a pic of my hat, jacket, and/or other such item lurking somewhere in the archives…coz I can’t find one on the ‘net.

Strange, that. (Note to Dan: Do you still have a Dozo Bird hat, jacket, or some such?)