-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- John Young wrote:

Monty Cantsin wrote:

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The right thing to do is to assume there are a certain number of moles around and engineer your activities accordingly. If you really think you can Find The Mole, then I would think your first step is to keep quiet about what you are doing.

Like, if you will, Monty Cantsin, the venerable generic pseudonym for sub rosa strategems. You fingering yourselves, Monty?

If you haven't been IDed as a mole here yet, you will, probably by your own woefully engineered statements.

All of us are moles for one ideology or another, maybe for several if the blowing wind tosses us that way. What's the point of being here if not for relishment of deceitful faux combat, to draw out the enemy (enemies) as Tim and Bob admirably display in their artful allure of ulterior motivated peacemakers and condescendors, me for one, as Declan love jousts CDT, as many us pisswind DC, NWO, ZOG, Armenians, Nipponese.

No, I mean a real mole. The kind that gets people killed or imprisoned. Actually, the nature of this particular group imposes some twists on Find The Mole. If this were some church group, and we tapped the phone of a suspected mole, and all we could get is 3DES encrypted speech, we could be pretty sure we found one. But that doesn't work around here. Anytime you see somebody doing something unusual, it is just as likely to mean it's Just Another Cypherpunk Who Is Up To Something. Likewise, operators of a mole will have a terrible time determining mole loyalty. A problem with informants is that they sometimes discover the target group is made up of pretty reasonable people and go native. And since using remailers is part of the cover... Moles can burrow in two directions. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNGtwoZaWtjSmRH/5AQFW1Af9Fu1B4bSiUbIiJuJnE48Xv/qScqldFqzT htUV4ZPHNzNvb3hQpaZMq5P1Lnyil2ZyhCA7u8ld6zbwfTc9JNMxb6OmWQN+pXdt 5ceDScGKtbp5uLtyaW0MbRvYPhY9RTvCl4IQbu++6AojiGd6/JxJFHD8L7XOlWV6 /IgfJ4r3aldRXZQpo+jTN2BL4HuvcrUSbBcj4H/rT7iZTS+Id1ZaR2FwxT01+z1g NaNxjaa83zlCyIUfRydPCmUPzk1lBjVQ3D6FKJjQ2A/PpQAly0Ynz6WQEYqE8h5N vA7vlm7W48kDS86DvK7RCaSe0w19BHcWQxyhDprAYUQ+XIrD2jZNaA== =mzrr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----