From: Aimee Farr[SMTP:aimee.farr@pobox.com]

The Lone Ranger also wore a black mask. He also rode the same horse, hung around the same Indian, and manifested repetitive behavior patterns. I don't think he really fooled anybody.

The FBI and PO-lice aren't the only ones interested in anarchists.

~Aimee

Duh. The Lone Ranger was interested in establishing an individual, persistant nym, unlinked a known person, not total anonymity. These 'blackbloc' vandals want to create confusion about which one of them commits which crime, thus using their Constitutional protections to protect them from successful prosecution. In a similar move, cops cover up their badge numbers when they plan to violate people's civil rights. Of course, this mechanism is very weak in the face of a reputation attack - an Agent Provocateur or a whole bloc of APs could easily destroy the credibility of the the blackbloc technique. Different goals, different methods. Peter Trei