Re: When the FBI Guys Come Knocking
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:29:42AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
Aimee may or may not be an agent, but this incarnation of An Metet sure looks like an agent procovateur, trying to salt this list with outrageous posts which Jeff Gordon and his merry men can later haul out to show that anyone with contact with the list is a priori a bad guy.
For the record, this kind of thing is very atypical on this list.
Agreed. That kind of nasty rant would seem to be authored by an agent provocateur, or a very juvenile flamer. It's hardly representative of discussions here. -Declan
On Thursday, September 27, 2001, at 08:12 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:29:42AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
Aimee may or may not be an agent, but this incarnation of An Metet sure looks like an agent procovateur, trying to salt this list with outrageous posts which Jeff Gordon and his merry men can later haul out to show that anyone with contact with the list is a priori a bad guy.
For the record, this kind of thing is very atypical on this list.
Agreed. That kind of nasty rant would seem to be authored by an agent provocateur, or a very juvenile flamer. It's hardly representative of discussions here.
It probably doesn't matter, as the persecutors get to cherrypick the posts they offer as evidence of a conspiracy. Given the new Anti-Terrorism laws the Congressvermin are racing to pass, there's a chance the Cypherpunks list/group will be placed on the list of terror organizations, with any support for (such as running nodes) declared to be illegally supporting an illegal organization. ---Tim May
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote:
Given the new Anti-Terrorism laws the Congressvermin are racing to pass, there's a chance the Cypherpunks list/group will be placed on the list of terror organizations, with any support for (such as running nodes) declared to be illegally supporting an illegal organization.
Are any cypherpunks nodes being operated outside of U.S.? Can subscription to an international mailing lists be outlawed? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3
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