Oh, da horrah.

29 May 1993

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On Thu, 27 May 93 23:04:21 -0600,
 ""L. Detweiler"" <uunet!longs.lance.colostate.edu!ld231782> wrote -
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Apparently someone has forged a Sternlight posting on sci.crypt and
alt.privacy.clipper. If the author can hear me: you should be severely
ashamed. I've said before that Sternlight is actually (in a warped way)
a *resource* to the net because of his representation of the NSA and
`fuzzy-brained public' opinion. Without him, we'd have nothing but all
of ourselves in a bland choir.
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Cypherpunks, maybe we can help track down the culprit. The forgery says
`recently, some have called me a dupe'. Perhaps it is an allusion to a
recent flame war wherein the counterfeiter participated.
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Cypherpunks are sneaky, but not sleazy. I look forward to the day when
digital signatures and other authentication methods make forged
postings like this a strange historical anachronism.
I'm surprised no one realized this before now. My first reaction to
this was that of humor. My second reaction was that I felt embarrassed
for thinking it was funny. My subsequent reaction was that of irony.
As was overheard in the newsgroup -
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From: steiner@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Jason 'Think!' Steiner)
Date: 27 May 93 07:09:07 EST
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heh. maybe David should start signing his posts with PGP so he won't
have this problem in the future. :^)
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[yeah, the irony was deliberatly manufactured by whoever forged that
post, but it's still too good to pass up.]
I couldn't agree more. I do, however, agree that it was a pretty
sleazy trick on somone's part -- but the irony factor is just too
surreal.

Cheers.

Paul Ferguson               |  The future is now.
Network Integrator          |  History will tell the tale;
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fergp@sytex.com             |  to shape it.

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