2 September 1999 - intended recipient

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This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain privileged confidential information, nuclear weapon secrets, or pornographic pictures. Any unauthorized viewing, use, disclosure, distribution, thought, understanding, mass destruction, or titillation is unconditionally prohibited, because we say so. If you are not the intended recipient, close your eyes immediately and carry out the following instructions. Destroy all copies of this message before you have read this far. If your computer is regularly backed up, you are legally required to break into the storage vault and destroy the backup tapes with a flamethrower. Thank you for your cooperation. You may now open your eyes.

clue:

I’m spoofing a real warning that I received in an e-mail message. You know who you are—but are you sure you know who you work for?

take oh take this clue away

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