;;; bruce.el --- bruce phrase utility for overloading the Communications -*- no-byte-compile: t -*- ;;; Decency Act snoops, if any. ;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, ;; 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: games ;; Created: Jan 1997 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; This program was written to protest the miss-named "Communications ;; Decency Act of 1996. This Act bans "indecent speech", whatever that is, ;; from the Internet. For more on the CDA, see Richard Stallman's essay on ;; censorship, included in the etc directory of emacs distributions 19.34 ;; and up. See also http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html. ;; For many years, emacs has included a program called Spook. This program ;; adds a series of "keywords" to email just before it goes out. On the ;; theory that the NSA monitors people's email, the keywords would be ;; picked up by the NSA's snoop computers, causing them to waste time ;; reading your meeting schedule notices or other email boring to everyone ;; but you and (you hope) the recipient. See below (I left in the original ;; writeup when I made this conversion), or the emacs documentation at ;; ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-manual*. ;; Bruce is a direct copy of spook, with the word "spook" replaced with ;; the word "bruce". Thanks to "esr", whoever he, she or it may be, this ;; conversion was an extremely easy piece of editing, suitable for a first ;; essay at elisp programming. ;; You may think of the name as having been derived from a certain Monty ;; Python routine. Or from Lenny Bruce, who opposed censorship in his own ;; inimitable way. Bruce does exactly what Spook does: it throws keywords ;; into your email messages or other documents. ;; However, in order to comply with the CDA as interpreted by Richard ;; Stallman (see the essay on censorship), bruce is distributed without a ;; data file from which to select words at random. Sorry about that. I ;; believe the average user will be able to come up with a few words on ;; his or her own. If that is a problem, feel free to ask any American ;; teenager, preferably one who attends a government school. Failing ;; that, you might write to Mr. Clinton or Ms Reno or their successors and ;; ask them for suggestions. Think of it as a public spirited act: the ;; time they spend answering you is time not spent persecuting someone ;; else. However, do ask them to respond by snail mail, where their ;; suggestions would be legal. ;; To build the data file, just start a file called bruce.lines in the etc ;; directory of your emacs distribution. Note that each phrase or word has ;; to be followed by an ascii 0, control-@. See the file spook.lines in ;; the etc directory for an example. In emacs, use c-q c-@ to insert the ;; ascii 0s. ;; Once you have edited up a data file, you have to tell emacs how to find ;; the program bruce. Add the following two lines to your .emacs file. Be ;; sure to uncomment the second line. ;; for bruce mode ;; (autoload 'bruce "bruce" "Use the Bruce program to protest the CDA" t) ;; Shut down emacs and fire it up again. Then "M-x bruce" should put some ;; shocking words in the current buffer. ;; Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually use this program ;; to add "illegal" words to your email, or any other purpose. First, you ;; don't really need a program to do it, and second, it would be illegal ;; for me to suggest or advise that you actually break the law. This ;; program was written as a demonstration only, and as an act of political ;; protest and free expression protected by the First Amendment, or ;; whatever is left of it. ;; We now return to the original writeup for spook: ;; Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu> didn't write the ;; program spook, from which this was adapted, and even if he did, he ;; really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. ;; ;; To use this: ;; Just before sending mail, do M-x spook. ;; A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help ;; give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated ;; keyword scanners. Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler! ;;; Code: (require 'cookie1) ; Variables (defgroup bruce nil "Insert phrases selected at random from a file into a buffer." :prefix "bruce-" :group 'games) (defcustom bruce-phrases-file "~/bruce.lines" "Keep your favourite phrases here." :type 'file :group 'bruce) (defcustom bruce-phrase-default-count 15 "Default number of phrases to insert." :type 'integer :group 'bruce) ;;;###autoload (defun bruce () "Adds that special touch of class to your outgoing mail." (interactive) (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) (cookie-insert bruce-phrases-file bruce-phrase-default-count "Checking authorization..." "Checking authorization...Approved")) ;;;###autoload (defun snarf-bruces () "Return a vector containing the lines from `bruce-phrases-file'." (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) (cookie-snarf bruce-phrases-file "Checking authorization..." "Checking authorization...Approved")) ;; Note: the implementation that used to take up most of this file has been ;; cleaned up, generalized, gratuitously broken by esr, and now resides in ;; cookie1.el. (provide 'bruce) ;;; arch-tag: b83ded51-4ccb-41ef-8bd6-3b521e81dd9b ;;; bruce.el ends here