Gang, First off, since I have just now been able to process some of the couple hundred msgs in my box, I'd like to respond to a good idea...
From: yanek@novavax.nova.edu
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The solution is the use of prefixes in Subject: lines. When you post, prefix your Subject: line with a short "tag" such as "ANON:", "DCNET:", "PGP:", "DCASH:", or others.
Excellent idea, Yanek, I like the elegance of it very much. However, I prefer to label all my Whistleblower posts with "FWEEE:" rather than the mundane "WHISTLE:" and besides, it's shorter. :-) Other than that, I like your suggestions,e and here are my (short) ones (marked with "-"): ANON: Anoymity/Pseudonymity -MIX: Remailer Technology DCNET: DC Nets RANDOM: Random Generators DCASH: Digital Banking PGP: PGP App/Current Info FLAME: Crypto-Censorship -FWEE!: Whistleblowers (T he "Keith Peterson Area"?) -MTGS: Physical Meetings/Conferences -------------- OK, now Whistleblowers --------------- Secondly, I suppose that everyone has by now heard about Bill Clinton's 800 numbers for government waste whistleblowers and anyone else to call. A great idea, and I applaud him for it (it'll keep Al Gore out of trouble for a while), but it's "kid stuff" compared to the picture I have in my mind for our Whistleblowers anonymous remailer system. Eventually, I would like to see anon msgs (some encrypted) alerting specific investigators about assassinations, military cost overruns, govt sex scandals, private sector insider trading and all sorts of other nefarious goings-on. This is gonna be GREAT! We're gonna "rock the world" of the rats out there. Over the next few weeks, I will post some plans like the one below for all of you to comment on. Among these will be a phased roadmap which will hopefully diagram for all Cypherpunks what needs to be done to get a true anon remailer up and running and populate it with juicy tidbits. Make no mistake, this is no small job: it will require a team effort. Prepare to be called on for small jobs, and feel free to refuse if the work is out of your league of if you haven't enough time. It'll get done: the People are counting on us. For now, we are in Phase 1: planning, design & data acquisition. Data Acq'n: I am now working on a database which will eventually cover all of Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary and the Pentagon. As noted before, this db will list email addresses wherever possible. Many Congresspeople do not currently have email, so we may even assist our elected officials in the process of getting looped in. We will send out our initial offers to some highly placed people to visit the Whistleblowers list and sign on, get a key and start paying attention. Phase 2 will be to spec out the remail and produce a preliminary set of instructions to be sent out with the invitation to participate. Phase 3 will be the initial remailer implementation and testing. Phase 4 will involve getting a few press and activist people to log on and get used to PGP and the whole idea. I expect by then that we may already have some whistles being blown. Later Phases will be discussed as I think of them, this is a rough preliminary sketch intended for comment. FYI: several Congressperson's offices have drooled audibly over the prospect and may contribute resources or assistance to our effort. I tend to think we should do this ourselves to avoid any sort of indebtedness to any official entity. In addition, a local SF TV news service has expressed real interest in getting a copy of PGP (DOS), so I will soon post a request for someone to supply that to a certain address (stay tuned). Again, I want to stress the importance of a central repository of all PGP versions for distribution for non-profit purposes such as being able to sign on to this list. The importance of ensuring that the software at this site is not compromised in any way is crucial, just to state the obvious. More later. Hope to see people at CFP and the Modern Times bookstore gig on Sunday. dave|evad PS: In future, I will be receiving mail from the Cypherpunks list at <internaut@aol.com>. any personal msgs can still be sent to me at <deltorto@aol.com>. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.1e mQCNAitfCt4AAAEEANk+zWV0Z1tnxsJm25BAvH2NI68RbNOaumDofJgVUL9BePQI HNNbOdu4gAmhcEXMvFVwu3vju4nh9qnzz7lYpw5Yh6TcgVI+vb9OsljfAR+ibhDN j5ParKfwZ+mexOCAfrgdt1z71XLY588qxs70ha6u76dvxUsdw6HBOF9KrwDlAAUT tCJEYXZpZCBEZWwgVG9ydG8gPGRlbHRvcnRvQGFvbC5jb20+ =YGwT -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----