At 1:05 PM 8/19/96, Ross Wright wrote:

On Or About 19 Aug 96, 7:03, Hal wrote:

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service, or in fact a network of any sort. Rather, it is a vendor. It buys and sells information.

My question to the list:

Who benefits from all this publicity and brew-ha-ha? Who makes all the BlackNet money? Who really cares if it is a Data Haven or just a remailer? I'm just asking.

Well, obviously I do. I receive $1.42 for every posting which mentions BlackNet, 7% of gross sales for all commercial transactions, and 12.5% plus a sliding finder's fee for all military and intelligence secrets sold via BlackNet. But all true paranoiacs knew this. --Aldrich Ames Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."