Maybe Tim May is channeling me, but this talk of messing with authorities on cypherpunks smells like list tampering to bait and ensare really dumb newbies. Playing games is fine, but running entrapments is against the house rules. That was encouraged in days of old and got jail sentences for susceptibles. Since then agent provocateurs, turn-coats and informants have become a nice-paying online industry and handsome budget inflators for the feds. And has bagged a wad of hackers, daring coders and alleged accomplices, among them: Jim Bell Carl Johnson Aaron Swartz Chelsea Manning Julian Assange Edward Snowden Gottfrid Warg Rop Gonggrijp Brigitta Jonsdottir Jacob Appelbaum Hector Monsegur Jake Davis Ryan Cleary Ryan Ackroyd Darren Martyn Donncha O'Cearrbhail Mustafa al-Bassam Jeremy Hammond Christopher Cooper Joshua Covelli Raynaldo Rivera Cody Kretsinger Lauri Love Neal Rauhauser Keith Downey Mercedes Haefer Donald Husband Ethan Miles James Murphy Drew Phillips Jeffrey Puglisi Daniel Sullivan Tracy Valenzuela Christopher Vo Barrett Brown Ross Ulbricht Andrew Jones Gary Davis Peter Phillip Nash Vladimir Drinkman Aleksandr Kalinin Roman Kotov Dmitriy Smilianets Mikhail Rytikov These are in last few years. Many more in the years before that, some after prison becoming security peddlers, journalists, hacker organizers and for the rest of their lives rats or sent back into the pokey. At least consider being bit more discreet, assholes, and in spare time read Gentlepersons Guide to Forum Spies: http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm