login clone vs. Chuck Brunow

[The Beach Bum]

Quite a few of you wrote want to know what Chuck Brunow had against the
login package I've been working on, and why he was on this religious
campaign.  I thought I might also add a few words of general freeware
wisdom.

Chuck Brunow has been harassing USENET users in many groups since his
return to the net this year.  I guess I get to be one of them.  There
is no basis for his complaining, except mean-spiritedness.  Various
criminal activities of his have been brought to light on the net, and
I guess there is no time like the present to fill you in on his past
actions.

Chuck is a local computer consultant.  On occasions he performs system
installations for local computer users, particularly 3B1 owners.  From
the information I have, it would seem that Chuck also likes to break
into 3B1's using the bugs in the user agent and destory their files
systems, etc.  One such user, who apparently was on his hate-list, had
to have another consultant come in and spend a considerable number of
hours undoing the damage caused by Chuck.

Chuck added me to his hate-list after I complained about his company
using USENET for the sale of commercial software, an activity which is
forbidded outside of a small number of newsgroups.  I feel the recent
announcement of a large piece of free software by myself is very
infuriating to a man who wants to use the network to pad his own wallet.

But I feel there is a bigger issue involved here.  If the bugs in the
user agent on the 3B1 are closed further still, Chuck will be unable to
break into systems with the ease he currently enjoys.  Crackers like
nothing less than having their cracking activities turned off.  After
the first time this information was posted [ about his cracking ], Chuck
wrote threatening e-mail to a person he suspected of giving out the
information.  Chuck can not stand to have the truth known about him.
Chuck has tried several different approaches to have me silenced.  This
slander campaign which resulted from the login clone announcement is only
the most recent.

As for trusting freeware, don't.  The great advantage of having the
source is that you get to see what is going on.  If you can't understand
the code, DON'T USE IT.  This is very true for a privileged package of
programs such as my login clone.  If you don't trust the code, don't use
it.

And you can rest assured that if Chuck Brunow is complaining about it,
that it is not only free, it will also prevent him from breaking into
your system better than the software you are presently using.
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