ecarp@netcom.com sez: <rm for brevity>
My feeling is that Mitnick getting past security, and Mitnick not having to decrypt at every stage, and stuff like that is good material, but these topics generally have big ol' love handles attached to them. Describing people's hot tub parties, for example, is not exactly cypherpunk material.
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I am imagine many people use (and I am headed this way) nntp.hks.net merely to avoid large boring non crypto/political threads. Not everyone has this capability, and now some of them have left because of the S/N. I'm talking about real cryptographers, not weekend warriors like, well, ok I'm more like a yearend warrior.On the other hand, Alice and others haven't posted lately, so perhaps the noise is just the fill-the-vacuum pheonominon.
Why don't you go and write some code? Put those busy fingers to better
Perhaps he is. I am. Are you?
I am too, but the other half of my major is philosophy. I can't help BSing about the social issues too.....which seems to be common on the list. Perhaps there is a compromise since there seem to be interests on the part of both parties? Like cypherpunks-tech@toad,com. Any words? lunaslide On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBvAzD3EHEAAAEDAMVwZzXozPjX18mCenA5fJsdWZXcrhJCxPR+SoVCmR7d4ZVU mwITzPTHo/GyLvJrWyk5YdhheczyY2VSawaMrCN/nWA7K9lwAylbKyPxqBhRYJ3C 2wi2uD5LY2wypNOQyQARAQABtB5KZWZmIENvbm4gPGx1bmFzbGlkZUBsb29wLmNv bT6JAHUDBRAw+1bqS2NsMqTTkMkBAQkTAwCersFbCyk8O0MbGlNcZDAe24CLEWQ0 0C5EHni33W76UsG1bybcLsuMH6HVwLF7IqZivnzc7wkujYPQvCqn8HEYYTld8V9V Cou4dOvA8kV7rHvAn/LuLx7DRruLFrRoPSk= =OIT9 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----