Could someone please explain to me why Mitnick is a cypherpunk issue? Myself, I have neither sympathy nor lack of sympathy for the Markoff-Shimomura "pr extravaganza", see no "cypherpunk" opinion on the subject, and don't see any reason we should, as a group, discuss or care about the topic.
I'm sure glad that you don't run this list, Perry, but it seems that you think you do. I, for one, get rather tired of your seemingly endless attempts at censoring what *you* think is and isn't relevent to the list. I see it as a cypherpunk issue, insofar as it deals with the issues of tracking down crackers, but I don't expect you to make the connection, since I guess the word "encryption" didn't figure prominently in the post and the connection isn't immediately obvious to the most casual observer, causing you to foam at the mouth and gush all over the list about "the relevence to the cypherpunks list" nonsense. Can someone please explain to me why *your* posts whining about the lack of relevence of certain posts are relevent? Why don't you take your own advice? I've got a better idea -- why don't you start your own list? That way, you can moderate to your heart's content and I don't have to see any more whining messages from you about what is and isn't "relevent". Why don't you go and write some code? Put those busy fingers to better use than to try and write pithy flames in an attempt to sound "cool" and call attention to yourself as the self-appointed censor of cypherpynks. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring