Thanks to anonymous we offer the arrest warrant and complaint against Carl Edward Johnson:

I conclude: A. There actually exist federal investigators who have nothing better to do with their lives than read the complete writings of the Performance Artists Sometimes Known as "Toto," and engage in endless mental masturbation over the hidden messages they imagine to be contained therein. B. When writing parody on the subject of AP, it is best not to employ the names of actual federal slackers, lest the clueless investigators actually believe them to be targeted in some fashion. The part where he explains digital cash and how he clicked on the AP Web Form almost rises to the AOL level of stupidity. I'm amazed Arjen Lenstra isn't in the slammer for the "DigiCrime" parody, given the "knowlege and experience" of Mr. Investigator here. -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html

At 6:40 PM -0700 9/8/98, Eric Cordian wrote:

I'm amazed Arjen Lenstra isn't in the slammer for the "DigiCrime" parody, given the "knowlege and experience" of Mr. Investigator here.

I'm sometimes surprised I was never arrested for pulling off the "BlackNet" secrets trading scheme. (Especially as it actually worked as I described it....and to think some of the folks here think I've never built anything.) As for the Carl Johnson document that John Young offers, I read it with great interest, much more interest than I ever could muster for the rants of Toto/Human Gus-Peter/Truthmonger. As I'd been deleting nearly all of Toto's stuff unread, I missed all the stuff about (allegedly) threatening to bomb the RCMP. I recall seeing his "AP Bot" and "Dead Lucky" items, which came out before I was deleting all of his stuff. I suppose I agree with Eric's earlier point (snipped above) that mentioning the actual names of judges or FBI agents or IRS inspectors in rants about AP and AP bots is not a wise move. As with Bell's stuff, it makes for a case that _possibly_ these agents and judges had something to fear. Were I one of those judges or agents, I would tend to think that _possibly_ my life was in danger. Best to leave rants at the general, protected speech level, and to not get into specifics of names and working habits of agents. (I make it a point not to bother learning the names of any of these folks, except high-visibility folks like Diane Feinswine, Janet Reno, Louis Freeh, etc. This makes it hard for any of my generalized rants to be taken as direct threats against local judges, agents, lawyers, etc.) And if Toto or Carl Johnson did in fact plant a bomb....I guess he'll be extradited to Canada after his trial here in the U.S. for the charges described. And he may well get off on the U.S. charges, as it seems likely that experts (like us, ironically) can testify that whatever point Toto thought he was making, there was no chance that a working "dead pool" was being demonstrated. But Toto will probably make a plea, as Bell did. --Tim May "The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants...." ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 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.