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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by striking on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:45PM (#22950001)
Perhaps they were going for an association with Allen Ginsburg's Howl (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl) instead?
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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by lsb on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:55PM (#22950099)
Reminds me of when someone saw that the NSA's public key (http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html) to be included in Lotus Notes had an organizational name of "MiniTruth", and a common name of "Big Brother".

Moloch isn't the good guy in Howl.

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!

Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!

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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by peterwwillis on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:11AM (#22953275)
Moloch the dude in the cubicle across from mine that always eats his lunch at his desk and chews with his mouth open!

Moloch the meddling micromanager from Maine!

Moloch the Junior Architect!

Moloch the 3-space indenter!

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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by theprotocol on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:30AM (#22953369)
Wasn't Allen Ginsburg also in favor of child abuse?... He was a member of NAMBLA...

At least Moloch isn't real.

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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by hprotagonist on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:29PM (#22950391)
which is the same referent, and begs the same question: "What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?"
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