The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story [video]

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  • Forever, there was a file included in stock Emacs, `spook.el`, which could be hooked up to automatically add random strings of "interesting" keywords to each of your email or Usenet messages (in signatures, or in headers like `X-Spook`).

    https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

    Looks like copyright date of 1988:

    https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...

    https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/spook....

    Try `M-x spook RET` in an Emacs buffer.

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