On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:17 PM, gwen hastings <gwen@cypherpunks.to> wrote:
... Just with rabbi(len sassman) dead(the last maintainer of the mixmaster code) there is no one to champion same(mixmaster) or even those left alive(nick matheson and few others(lucky,noise etc) who understand the tech well enough to make competent changes. The type 2 remailer network is still alive and working and new code will attract new operators and I plan the mods to support either old format or new format(once this is designed) type 2 and type especially in the face of the NSA monitoring...if nothing else than as a "FUCK YOU" gesture...
i'm nostalgic for 5MB MFM full height drives in an 8088 with turbo button. i'm nostalgic for NeXT Step slabs and connection machines. i'm nostalgic for the NSA that strengthened public cryptosystems against future attacks. ... but that doesn't make those days any less dead.
nah been there done that for past 24 years etc.. even was one of the first 2 "persons of interest" in the cypherpunks "movement".
anonymous remailers are much more fun and mischievous than helping one handed morons view the latest porn at low latency.
fuck mate, this is about mischief!? ... ... hold up, time to off list before JYA calls us FBI shills ;P