At 6:45 AM 2/20/96, Anonymous wrote:
With the additional nym servers coming on the scene comes the question of whether or not to "claim" our alpha.c2 nym on the other ones, too. E.g., if we are foobar@alpha.c2.org, should we also become foobar@nym.gondolin.org and foobar@nym.alias.net, too?
You know, shalmaneser@alpha.c2.org sent me a message demanding that he be given the name shalmaser@black.net on my system, for exactly this reason. I told him to fuck off. Now he's threatening to sue me. Do you folks think this is right? (More to the point, this example shows that whatever "anonymous" thinks about "claims" on nyms, it's pointless. Even if _some_ nyms are apparently persistent across nymservers, all it takes is the possibility of this not to be so for the fiction to collapse. The best way to prove that "shalmaneser@alpha.c2.org" is really the same True Name (or in alliance with) as "foobar@black.net" is to show that either can read the messages encrypted to the other.) --Tim May Boycott espionage-enabled software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."