1 ;;; bruce.el --- bruce phrase utility for overloading the Communications -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
2 ;;; Decency Act snoops, if any.
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10 ;; Obsolete-since: 24.3
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29 ;; This program was written to protest the miss-named "Communications
30 ;; Decency Act of 1996. This Act bans "indecent speech", whatever that is,
31 ;; from the Internet. For more on the CDA, see Richard Stallman's essay on
32 ;; censorship, included in the etc directory of emacs distributions 19.34
33 ;; and up. See also http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html.
35 ;; For many years, emacs has included a program called Spook. This program
36 ;; adds a series of "keywords" to email just before it goes out. On the
37 ;; theory that the NSA monitors people's email, the keywords would be
38 ;; picked up by the NSA's snoop computers, causing them to waste time
39 ;; reading your meeting schedule notices or other email boring to everyone
40 ;; but you and (you hope) the recipient. See below (I left in the original
41 ;; writeup when I made this conversion), or the emacs documentation at
42 ;; ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-manual*.
44 ;; Bruce is a direct copy of spook, with the word "spook" replaced with
45 ;; the word "bruce". Thanks to "esr", whoever he, she or it may be, this
46 ;; conversion was an extremely easy piece of editing, suitable for a first
47 ;; essay at elisp programming.
49 ;; You may think of the name as having been derived from a certain Monty
50 ;; Python routine. Or from Lenny Bruce, who opposed censorship in his own
51 ;; inimitable way. Bruce does exactly what Spook does: it throws keywords
52 ;; into your email messages or other documents.
54 ;; However, in order to comply with the CDA as interpreted by Richard
55 ;; Stallman (see the essay on censorship), bruce is distributed without a
56 ;; data file from which to select words at random. Sorry about that. I
57 ;; believe the average user will be able to come up with a few words on
58 ;; his or her own. If that is a problem, feel free to ask any American
59 ;; teenager, preferably one who attends a government school. Failing
60 ;; that, you might write to Mr. Clinton or Ms Reno or their successors and
61 ;; ask them for suggestions. Think of it as a public spirited act: the
62 ;; time they spend answering you is time not spent persecuting someone
63 ;; else. However, do ask them to respond by snail mail, where their
64 ;; suggestions would be legal.
66 ;; To build the data file, just start a file called bruce.lines in the etc
67 ;; directory of your emacs distribution. Note that each phrase or word has
68 ;; to be followed by an ascii 0, control-@. See the file spook.lines in
69 ;; the etc directory for an example. In emacs, use c-q c-@ to insert the
72 ;; Once you have edited up a data file, you have to tell emacs how to find
73 ;; the program bruce. Add the following two lines to your .emacs file. Be
74 ;; sure to uncomment the second line.
77 ;; (autoload 'bruce "bruce" "Use the Bruce program to protest the CDA" t)
79 ;; Shut down emacs and fire it up again. Then "M-x bruce" should put some
80 ;; shocking words in the current buffer.
83 ;; Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually use this program
84 ;; to add "illegal" words to your email, or any other purpose. First, you
85 ;; don't really need a program to do it, and second, it would be illegal
86 ;; for me to suggest or advise that you actually break the law. This
87 ;; program was written as a demonstration only, and as an act of political
88 ;; protest and free expression protected by the First Amendment, or
89 ;; whatever is left of it.
92 ;; We now return to the original writeup for spook:
94 ;; Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu> didn't write the
95 ;; program spook, from which this was adapted, and even if he did, he
96 ;; really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
99 ;; Just before sending mail, do M-x spook.
100 ;; A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help
101 ;; give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated
102 ;; keyword scanners. Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler!
110 "Insert phrases selected at random from a file into a buffer."
114 (defcustom bruce-phrases-file
"~/bruce.lines"
115 "Keep your favorite phrases here."
119 (defcustom bruce-phrase-default-count
15
120 "Default number of phrases to insert."
126 "Adds that special touch of class to your outgoing mail."
128 (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file
)
129 (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file
))
130 (cookie-insert bruce-phrases-file
131 bruce-phrase-default-count
132 "Checking authorization..."
133 "Checking authorization...Approved"))
136 (defun snarf-bruces ()
137 "Return a vector containing the lines from `bruce-phrases-file'."
138 (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file
)
139 (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file
))
140 (cookie-snarf bruce-phrases-file
141 "Checking authorization..."
142 "Checking authorization...Approved"))
144 ;; Note: the implementation that used to take up most of this file has been
145 ;; cleaned up, generalized, gratuitously broken by esr, and now resides in
150 ;;; bruce.el ends here