There must be a big delay in the remailer. This is a week late. It should have been the first of April. Nomen Nescio wrote:
There was an interesting proposal by Dave Del Torto yesterday at SFBAY cypherpunk meeting. He suggested that cypherpunks were, sort of, invited to help a newly founded international police force. These guys help the international court of justice, and track down criminals like Milosevic, bin Laden and others. In their investigations they need strong crypto, because sometimes they operate in the hostile environments.
If any cypherpunk needs a get-out-of-jail pass, this is the chance to earn one.
Volunteers should contact Dave.
At the risk of taking things seriously which were meant as trolls - If so-called cypherpunks (there is no movement) have any self-proclaimed expertise it is in using computers for communications and cryptography. I think that many governments already know how to do that. Two or three of them are quite good at it. And what is this "track down" of which you speak? The US government (& probably the Russian & the British as well, and I wouldn't put it past the Indians or even the Chinese) probably know exactly where bin Laden is this week. Everybody knows exactly where Milosevic is supposed to be - in the best room in the best jail in Belgrade. Cypherpunks (who aren't a movement) write code (or once said they did). You're going to get him out by your expert declarative coding techniques? And which side are you on anyway? Why should someone, just because they are a cypherpunk, (Sorry, just because they think in a cypherpunkly way sometimes - there are no such things as cypherpunks, there is no movement) why should they want to track down bin Laden anyway? Maybe some of them approve of rich businessmen who hole up in the hills somewhere with a lot of guns and money, ignore the State, and plot against the US government? Maybe some cypherpunks are Taliban, maybe some are nationalist Serbs, maybe some are loonies, maybe some just have a fetish about guns & like to see them used (especially on someone else). Why assume what side these guys are on? Anyway, at least a few of you guys are anarchists. It is obviously an appropriate thing for anarchists to be helping your government impose their will on foreigners. It just goes with the territory, right? Famous supporters of neocolonialism, those anarchists. Always putting on uniforms and obeying orders and marching off to some foreign country to napalm the natives. Pay no attention to the wizard. It is the anarchists behind the curtain who are really running the deal. Ken Cypherpunks: there is no movement, as the Pope's friends said to Galileo.