On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:40:33AM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
time for such pipe dreams. Now that many are un- or under-employed there still doesn't seem to be any activity by those active on this list in this critical infrastructure area. All the recent work that is being done (e.g., Orlin Grabbe's ALTA/DMT http://orlingrabbe.com/redirect.htm, Patrick McCuller's Lucrative http://lucrative.thirdhost.com, YodelBank http://yodelbank.com/, InvisibelNet http://invisiblenet.net) has been undertaken by real cypherpunks, a few monitor this list but rarely if ever
That's a useful roundup, thanks. I think the cypherpunk goal of anonymity is still alive and well -- it's just that the folks involved in efforts like Freenet don't necessary consider themselves cypherpunks or subscribe to this list. Defcon featured a good number of anon projects; most dealing with publishing/web browsing/email than anon digital cash, unfortunately (though the interest is there). -Declan