An Metet:
It's also rather interesting that Aimee is objecting to people "cowering behind remailers". On the cypherpunk list? On the contrary, we should all be using remailers. Someone seriously does need to start a node which only accepts posts from remailers. I'm beginning to strongly suspect Aimee as as troll.
Suspect? Gee, what gave me away? The A team. UNMASKED!
Faustine is likely another one. Interesting isn't it that she knows so much of what sort of software and capabilites the NSA and FBI have. A lot of this lately has the smell of classic FUD -- Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt, the essence of government disinformation.
The B team. Slides in behind the A team.... Think they sent us to come put a stop to all the subversive code being written in here? Yes, it's true, we waited until 2001 to infiltrate your "email list" with Jezebel Women and compromise your leaders. Our mission? To secure positions of power and influence to prepare for the coming of "crypto-anarchy." Ah, but we didn't count on the highly-developed counterintelligence skillset of cypherpunk list members, much less the CPUNKOPSEC team led by An Metat. That blew us up. You win. We give up. If you let us go, we'll give you back your biometrics (we've got them all, including keystroke dynamics - no, we don't need a keylogger), language identifiers and friendship trees. We'll also release our hostages, and give you the antidotes to our love potions -- but only in exchange for Choate. We want to express our appreciation for the intelligence, and the ideas, that you have provided the U.S. Government with over the years. This list has been one of our most successful ops. However, we discovered the list is no longer an asset. You stopped writing code and turned into a bitch-tank full of bomb-talk and bimbo-bashing. (We're da guvmint, we know how to make bombs, bitch and bimbo better than you do.) You're not giving us good ideas. It's all "well-trod ground," you see? Everything we need is in the archives. So, sadly, we must part ways, pending certain "administrative paperwork." ~Aimee PS: Listen to the remailer guy. He's here to help.