Emad in Mindjail
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In June of 2003, a worm transmitted through weak software via IRC started spamming us all with dire warnings of Miss Cleo's injustice against someone named Ethom. The story went that she had put him in a Mindjail, and some messages wailed like banshees imploring us to get poor Ethom out. Here are a few samples from my logs: 01:46 <akcrpxwzn> Miss Cleo has put a curse on Ethom, now Ethom is trapped in mindjail, help him out... http://66.222.28.114:3030/ 06:25 <bczexzzfs> E-thom is trapped in mindjail, mindjail is a trap for your brain, see if you can get him out! http://211.186.45.24:3030/mindjailworm: (child) [69] dccspam irc.slashnet.org 09:10 <gpqfxvvcf> Ever heard of a thing called mindjail? Check it: http://61.101.91.237:3030/ 09:01 <pcokrfepi> EEEEEEETHHHOOOM! MINDJAIL!! HE IS TRAPPED!! GET HIM OUT! http://24.167.37.66:3030/ Of course, the local prankster and all around goofball on our local hangout is one Emaddin El-Haraty. It didn't take long before the topic of the channel read "EEEEEEEMAAAD! MINDJAIL!!! HE IS TRAPPED!! GET HIM OUT!" Thus the comment "based on a true story". Atob wrote the original emad in python, and released it via the local user list for zork.net. It was quickly mutated and contributed to, and cvs on zork was soon provided. Needing a good set of example code for an autoconf tutorial I was giving, I rewrote it in C with the ncurses panels library. No, of course you can't quit. What kind of mindjail would THAT be?