<story><title>“Giganews is an FBI Operation”</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2014/09/giganews-fbi.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrbill</author><text>Having worked at Texas.Net before it became DataFoundry, and being one of the people who built up the original Sun E450s that were used as the Usenet servers when the separate Giganews product was developed, I find this hilarious.&lt;p&gt;I know a good number of the GN&amp;#x2F;DF employees mentioned in the article, and think this sounds more like a disgruntled ex-employee trying to badmouth his former employer.&lt;p&gt;As for the &amp;quot;gigauth&amp;quot; file - how else are you going to run a subscription Usenet service without logging authenticated users?&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I worked for Texas.Net from 1996 to late 1998 and was one of the people involved in moving their HQ from their San Antonio location to 823 Congress in Austin.&lt;p&gt;Edit: BTW, here&amp;#x27;s pics of my tubby self at work in the GREEN TSHIRT THEY MADE ME WEAR! (hey, free clothing is free clothing, I loved not having to worry about what I was going to wear to work every day..)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mrbill.net/texasnet/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mrbill.net&amp;#x2F;texasnet&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have nothing but respect for Ron Y. and his family - he and his wife invited me to spend Thanksgiving dinner in &amp;#x27;96 with them since I&amp;#x27;d just moved to Austin and had nowhere else to go.  I will never forget that kindness.</text></comment>
<story><title>“Giganews is an FBI Operation”</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2014/09/giganews-fbi.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bendoernberg</author><text>Giganews has responded by claiming the ex-employee is delusional. They posted links to a pastebin allegedly written by him, which includes the following:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Besides spamming, the only other conduct that is unacceptable is uploading or contacting our employees with information about Vehuiah the holy angel, her
invocation Psalm 3:3, Archangels, or the angels of Jehovah&amp;#x27;s 72 syllable name called the Shemhamforash. These are all unstoppable solutions to the 72 demon intelligences central to mankind, and will drive the dark of all evil away with
an annoyingly bright Holy Light.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/Giganews/status/511587414683291648&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;Giganews&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;511587414683291648&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/gM9mN7gS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pastebin.com&amp;#x2F;gM9mN7gS&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>