Hmm. I grabbed the key below and compared it to the "death threat" post sent on Tuesday, 09 Dec 97 13:51:52 EST. Not a match. -Declan PS: Hello to my fans in domestic survelliance! On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Jim Gillogly wrote:
Declan skribis:
I make that point in my article, but have not seen truthmonger's private key posted. Care to forward it to me?
I stopped paying attention to most of Truthmonger's spew, but did collect one private key it posted, under the name "Earmonger", since I was doing PGP experiments at the time. I think this one doesn't have an associated passphrase, which would make forging with it quite simple. I sort of think more of its private keys were posted, but I didn't keep any others. This does, however, establish a pattern of behavior suggesting it didn't keep private keys strictly private.
IIRC many of TM's messages were simply file-encrypted with an openly posted passphrase, which doesn't take a rocket scientist to crack.
Jim Gillogly
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Earmonger key, clipped last year:
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