At 7:20 AM -0700 6/12/97, Mark Grant wrote:
No, they're binding supposedly government-issued ids to keys. There's a difference.
There are three problems with signing keys based on government-issued ids.
2. Governments will issue fake ids to their agents, so there's no proof that that 'Mark Grant' is 'really' 'Mark Grant' and not 'Joe Sasquatch, NSA, FBI, BATF'.
I understand that "Joe Sasquatch" is actually the newly-issued name for the BATFag formerly known as "Lon Horiuchi." He can run, but he can't hide (forever). (Talk about your assassination politics! The militias have a price on that guy's head.) The USG is of course one of the main liars about identity, using government-issued credentials to lie about past and current identities. Check into the so-called "Witness Security Program," aka WitSec. (Popularly known as "Witness Protection.") A recent vintage list of mappings between apparent True Names and government-issued fake names, including faked credit reports (the three major CRAs are of course complicit in this fakery), was floating around in the underground community a few years ago...acquired from a government surplus disk drive arrray bought in Martinsburg, W. Va. Many interesting uses of such a list of stool pigeons and traitors. Fascinating times, eh? --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."