rarachel@prism.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian):
I found this on comp-privacy. Maybe we can use a scheme like this one to send anti-clipper information over the net... Does toad.com have a usenet news feed? If so, maybe we can have a program written that scans for keywords and mails the author of the message some info about cypherpunks and clipper and digital telespying 2.
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We could also have this program autobomb different articles based on different keywords. It would be a good idea to also keep a list of names of those who
We'll soon start using agents, knowbots et al to look for info of our interest. Autobombers can act as useful 'reverse agents,' that find info that we ought to be interested in, determined from our postings. Very useful, if done in a way that doesn't irritate. However, Paul's description (below) of rtfm keeping track of posters is scary. It's like subscription lists; if I let the Economist give my name to whoever, I might get some interesting info; I might also be junk-bombed, and 'kept track of.' Also:
From: "Paul W. Robinson" <PAULW@TDR.COM>
[description of rtfm autobomber elided]
This sort of practice could be prostituted into to all sorts of interesting political correctness tactics by having automated programs that watch for comments someone doesn't like and mailing the writer complaints.
I can imagine a 'Detweiler bomb.' It scans for all occurrences of 'anonymity,' 'remailers,' 'Tim May,' 'reputations,' 'fraud,' and responds with long essays on pseudospoofing and child pornography. Let's see: 'reputations' - 'conspiracies by Them'; 'remailers' - 'that Roman torture thing'; 'Tim May' - 'is really Hal Finney (or was it Nick Szabo?)'; and so on... Using a different anon address (we don't mind using remailers to 'demonstrate their misuse') each time, with an expert system to recreate the original Detweiler writing style. (When not ranting against cypherpunks, LD seems to do quite a bit of useful work; the very detailed anon, privacy and whistle- blowing faqs, or the Net resource list for writers.) Thankfully, it's not *too* hard to build firewall agents to keep junk out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "What is civilisation rishab@doe.ernet.in, rishab@dxm.ernet.in but a ribonucleic Voicemail +91 11 3760335; Vox/Fax/Data 6853410 hangover?" H-34C Saket New Delhi 110017 INDIA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------