michael brown <n5qmg <at> earthlink.net> writes:

> 
> Recon wrote:
> > I have heard of LINUX and some of the other languages in this article,
> > but never  "LUNIX".
> >
> > Here is a link to the article. subject 8 is the one discussing  LUNIX.
> >
> > http://www.jayssite.com/stuff/childhacker/childhacker.html
> >
> > It sounds like the author of this article knew just enough to be
> > dangerous.
> 
> I first saw this years ago in COLA (comp.os.linux.advocacy a USENET 
> group for fanaticists 
> I heard somewhere that it started as a satire and that some kooky soccer 
> mom ran accross it and took it as gospel.  I don't know how much truth 
> there is to that, but it sounds plausable. 
> 

I would say it is a piece of irresponsible satire, if it has started as one. 
For people who know this it is a ROFL, but for a "normal" people there are too
many things to catch their attention as true and enaugh things to scare. 
Classical tactic used in politics and advertising: Gain trust (in this cas: Is
your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour? - Of course,
he is becoming a teenager!!) show a link to an enemy (the word hacker had a lot
of bad press recently.  Hacker who is using Lunix developed by a Soviet spy is
even scarier), show impact for the reader (your son will go to prison!), and
call for action.  


Sergey


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