At 7:56 PM -0500 11/1/00, anonymous@openpgp.net wrote:
At 7:08 PM -0500 11/1/00, Tim May wrote:
An ordinary little girl using Freedom, the putative target candidate for Freedom, say the ads, is not going to need PipeNet-style traffic padding!!!
A little girl wanting to sell nude digital snapshots of herself for milk(bar) money might. You never can tell what passes for "ordinary" these days.
I think ZKS just needs to revamp its "little girl" ads. That should increase their subscri(b/v)er base.
Indeed. Some years ago, in 1993, I used an anonymous remailer (I think I used a remailer, but I may have just posted it directly) to advertise a"nude lolita." Just as your example cites. ("Lolitas" being a code word for young girls, snatch, er, natch.) Much gnashing of teeth, much demand that the author be tracked down and prosecuted. I wonder how long a Freedom nym would have lasted? After several days of merriment, I pointed out that that _diagonal_ of my .GIF ASCII text block read: "t H i S i s N O t A r e a L i M a G E," or something similar to this. I just took a PGP-encrypted text block I had laying around, edited it to add the hidden disclaimer, then remailed the alleged "Lolita" to places where the call for censorship would be predictable. I had always planned to someday get a Freedom account and use my "five nyms" for some true tests of how free the free speech they advocate really is. The lack of a Mac version has held me back, as I only have a PC emulator, and I never use it for the Net. Anyone know how well Freedom 1.1 operates under Virtual PC 3.0 running Windows 98 SE with underlying Mac PPP and TCP/IP services? I may still get an account and really go to town with the most outrageous uses I can think of, then report back here on how many nyms lasted for how long. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.