Re:Lying... (re: He was not a teenage hacker) (Score 2)

I also went to Carnegie Mellon with Declan - the memory of him that most sticks out in my mind was when he tried organize a rally at CMU when the administration blocked access to some of the usenet groups (specifically the alt.sex binaries groups). He got someone from the EFF to come speak, held the rally in front of the university computing center, and made it out to be a real freedom of speech issue. Of course, the rally was a misreable failure, both in terms of attendance and effect. The university was afraid of lawsuits , so it would have taken an act of god to get them to change thier minds, and not the 50 or so people who showed up. And in many students eyes (including my own), it really wasn't a freedom of speech issue, and we just didn't care since very few people actually used the alt.sex binary groups. Declan seemed to be alot more concerned with the issue than the reality of the situation