At 1:29 AM -0500 11/2/00, James A, Donald wrote:
-- At 08:22 PM 11/1/2000 -0500, Tim May wrote:
I had always planned to someday get a Freedom account and use my "five nyms" for some true tests of how free the free speech they advocate really is.
I attempted to do this, but was foiled by bugs. I paid my money, but did not get my nyms. This seems to have been a widespread experience. ZKS denied any problem. I concluded that if I could not trust them, I could not trust their proprietary cryptography, and forgot about it.
Well, perhaps because of my vociferousness, they sent me five nym coupons (I think that's the term) tonight, gratis, for me to try out for a year. I don't know when I'll set aside the time to try to figure out how to use them, how to avoid the installation problems others have reported, but perhaps in the next few weeks. (There are the issues of running it under Virtual PC 3.0 emulating Windows 98 SE I mentioned. Considering the problems folks have reported of it crashing plain vanilla Windows on plain vanilla Intel hardware, I'm skeptical...we'll see.) I'm leaning toward trying for a controlled experiment, such as it is with only 5 nyms, with my nyms split this way: -- one as the persona of a Zundelsite Holocaust denier, calling in newsgroups for the extermination of the ZOG occupiers and the liquidation of millions of Israeli parasites -- one as the persona of a terrorist attempting to arrange the destruction of the Canadian parliament building while it is in session...maybe with copies "accidentally" sent to various wagonburner politicians. -- one as a young Freedom-using nymph using her new Freedom node to trade pictures of herself doing naughty things -- one as a U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer offering information for sale on Seawolf sailing schedules and design parameters and for a "control": -- one nym asking for help on his U.S. History homework assignment I'll keep you informed. --Tim May...for now! -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.