The lead article in the news section is an anti-Clipper piece by me. The news editor of High Times (Bill Weinberg) is a good friend of mine and an anarchist. He invited me to write the article. He definitely appreciates this stuff (though he's not a techie himself). --Dave. P.S.: Wednesday, I gave the first-ever Lower East Side schoolyard teach-in on crypto. The place where the talk was supposed to be held (ABC No Rio) got padlocked by the cops at the last minute (the city's been trying to evict them for years), so we just went across the street and held the event in a schoolyard. Basketball games and baby carriages all around us. It was a lot of fun. Sort of felt like I was in the TV show "Room 222." At 2:12 PM 8/27/94 -0400, L. Todd Masco wrote:
This month's High Times includes a bunch o' articles on the Internet, mailing lists, alt.drugs, John Perry Barlow, etc.
There's an article that's pretty reasonable called "Cyber-Hydroponics" [by "Bucky Dave and Garbled Uplink"], discussing anonymous remailers (PGP is discussed in another article) and schemes that remind me of the "Little Brother Inside" idea. Included in the article is a list of anonymous remailers: it's very interesting to note that the list includes the cypherpunks remailers but *not* the penet.fi one. Somebody has a clue.
The article is primarily about controlling systems through anonymous remailers: setting up a space to grow pot in and controlling and monitoring it remotely entirely untracably through remailers. A very interesting application.
If there's sufficient interest, the article could be send to cypherpunks. I'd recommend picking up the issue, even if you have no interest in psychoactives. It's also got an article on erosion of constitutional rights, something that the readership of High Times is in a particularly good position to appreciate.
This should be interesting: this is reaching a wide audience of folks who have a very real need for secure communications, who have good reason to be paranoid. I can easily envision a mailing list based upon the PGP-majordomo mechanisms discussed earlier dedicated to growing pot (Did anybody do any coding on that?), the subscribers being totally anonymous.
Open the floodgates wide... -- L. Todd Masco | "Large prime numbers imply arrest." - Previously meaningless cactus@bb.com | grammatically correct sentence. Now...
-- Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com