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• • 03 Feb 07
  • 10:58 am

  One thing I notice about the ITT posters' exchanges is they tend to veer off topic and regularly, and often it's about people's personal ideologies. No offence intended to anyone here. It does, however, seem to be the case. And I know this because I lurk here time and again. One or two posters jumped on Slavoj for saying, "I can never be sure who they [his cyberspace communicants] are." Although we can get a kick out of thinking that Z's point is that everybody online is a phoney, the point he's making is an old one in cyber-theory and cyber …

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• • 05 Feb 07
  • 10:17 pm

  So now I’ve got people impersonating me on ITT? I’m the REAL Theo-and the other one, Papathanasis? I did a search on that name and there’s an infamous Puppet Master that haunts many of the websites in Athens that goes by that name. He uses some software he developed to break down passwords of users, and then posts as them. Later, he will say it was a mistake, and just add his signature name to theirs and then say he had forgotten he entered his full name earlier. Diabolically clever, one must admit. I will send a link later to the …

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• • 09 Feb 07
  • 1:21 am

  I fear weve been ragging young Theo too much in this thread. I do hope he wasn’t frightened away. Its just the coincidence of his realizing his identity mistake in this of all discussions was too good to pass up. I couldn’t resist a little joke. Of course you're a real person. You seem like a nice guy. Come back Theo Papathanasis. We promise we wont tease you any more. Just remember, this is the internet, so 'beware of Geeks bearing grifts!'

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• • 20 Feb 07
  • 5:02 pm

  I guess its time for me to confess, eh Theo? Yes, I am the one who created this little psycho-drama as an extension of my premise in the article. I also registered as Recursive Prophet before I sent it in so I could control the planned recursive function I had intended to put into motion. How Eric discovered this I have yet to ascertain, but I will. Maybe Eric is in reality the frog? Are you in fact the Magus, Theo? Slavoj

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