At 1:45 PM -0700 6/16/97, Alan wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Tim May wrote:
(I admit to having a perverse side, too. No suprise to many of you. Several years ago I posted some binaries to the brand-new newsgroup, "alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.children". I claimed they were some hot lolitas, though in fact they were misc. PGP noise, with hidden text messages running down some of the diagonals, to get me off the hook if some DA claimed they were real pictures and demanded the decryption key. I wanted to shake things up. Got a lot of outraged responses, too.)
Were they outraged that it was not kiddy porn or outraged that they could not get to it or outraged because you claimed it was kiddy porn? (I tend to direct people to http://www.thecorporation.com/oneoffs/96/kittyporn/index.html for that sort of stuff...)
Some of them said I should be imprisoned for posting erotic images of children. And some of them wanted me to send them the proper decryption key. And some even claimed, after I revealed that the supposed GIF images were not real, that I was nevertheless guilty of "making a market in child porn." As we've been discussing lately, a classic case of "thoughtcrime."
Makes you wonder what they were doing reading that group in the first place...
No doubt they were "researchers." Got to study those nekkid pictures really, really carefully, with a magnifyng glass....yeah, "researchers." Just like "se7en." --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."