And, if IRS is leading homeland defense investigation, that might well portend most interesting days ahead for cypherpunks. As well as heighten interest in the undercover operatives here who presumably have been long engaged in building reputation, confidence and trust -- or fomenting their opposites -- and aiming at entrapment by advocating criminal behavior, as specified by the CI Handbook.
There is absolutely nothing new about it. Cypherprankish solution would be strong anonymity instead of complaining on the basis of popular US mythology (constitution et al.) and Californian ideology which seems to prevail here. If you want to make a personal (ie. body-endangering) statement then there are many fora that can accomodate that. If you want to discuss an applied mathematical solution that affects meatspace behaviour (ie. cypher-weapons development) then do it anonymously. There is really no middle ground. Fishing for the meatspace fame subjects you to the meatspace rules - and I find this to be the most serious limiting factor - there is no usable crypto stuff done by mr. Melon. Or to make it really simple: who gives the fuck if 50% of active cpunk subscribers are sponsored by the USG ? They will just prune the stupids. (I *know* that this is not an anon post - by anonymous I mean mixmaster chain originating in camera-less internet cafe far from your usual waterholes.) ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/