As usual, i'm late to the party.
Hey, if you're going to feed the trolls, might as well feed them something interesting... Does it bare investigation, or bear it :-) ?
I vote to bar the quesion. :-/
And of course there's no need for government FUD in a cypherpunks environment, since there has always been plenty of volunteer work by the private sector.
Which is a great intro to a few of the first random thoughts I had while reading this missive from the Sooper Sekrit [French] Gub'mint Agent: How convenient that Frog is the example used, as Frog is well known for it's [successful] attack against the system. What better way to get the locals to start nodding their heads than to use this well known and long identified broken node", while implicitly maintaining that 'Le Author" does't know anything about that. "About TOR now: I MAY not say all what I know, as the case is currently investigated by our services and I don't want to get into trouble!" Yet s/he chooses a "safe" remailer like service to "hide" behind? Wait - I thought we just learned that _all_ remailers and their relatives were under hostile control? "About 4 years ago (I don't remember exactly, and I am at home now, I haven't my documents with me), we visited the operator of the remailers FROG and AZERTY." Since when would an agent have the files from a four year old (assumedly Black) "operation" easily at hand? The rest of this latter is just well known crap smooshed together with a Secret-Club Handshake and a warning to 'be careful' - no duh! WTF was the actual _point_ of this in the first place? What would the possible payoff be? The writer is for sure no secret agent, nor likely even playing one in her garage: does he merely get off by posting stupid shit on a public list? Nobody truly familiar with any annonymizing service is going to pay that thing any attention, but newbies *might* (depending on their naivete and gullibility). Even so, standing by itself, it's not even a howl in the wind, it's a whisper on a subway...inaudible, unintelligible, and a waste of oxygen. Like this reply... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF 'The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.' St. George Tucker