a neat new book that's a collection of some of the more interesting essays on cyberspace called "high noon on the electronic frontier" is now in bookstores, and I highly recommend it. the editor Peter Ludlow has a good eye and aesthetic sense for exactly the more influential essays that have been written and are circulating. the list of authors/contributors is a real Who's Who in cyberspace: Barlow, Stallman, Kapor, Godwin, Denning, Zimmermann, Chaum, Rheingold, Sterling, etc. good articles by Dibbell, Levy, DeWitt, etc. but unfortunately Markoff is conspicuously absent. maybe he wanted too much money for his writing <g> TCMay is well represented with several essays in a section on "encryption, privacy, and crypto-anarchism". 3 essays, Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, Intro to Blacknet, and BlackNet worries. I was curious about TCMay's essay on Blacknet, though, that mentions a mysterious "X" who he credits as raising many of the issues surrounding Blacknet on the cpunk mailing list in Feb 1994. Ludlow states in a footnote TCMay "elided references to interlocutors". I wonder about the identity of the mysterious "X" and whether he/she is still posting to the list. does anyone know who he/she is? I was thinking it would be interesting to see whether he/she still feels the same about Blacknet and/or get a new conversation going about the subject with the insight that time can bring. I wonder why TCMay found it important to elide "X"'s identity-- perhaps "X" was one of his tentacles? (hee, hee) anyway I highly recommend this volume!! after reading this the public will get a far better idea about what cyberspace is about and what it means. a great coverage of all the key issues.