On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:50:32PM -0400, alex wright wrote:
I can't imagine trusting enough people that I can't see to necessitate a mailing list. It would certainly be neat, though.
Neat but pretty pointless... You not only have to trust in the integrity and commitment to your cause and resistance to blackmail and being turned of each and every member, you ALSO have to trust them to be highly skilled at maintaining the security and integrity of the node they read the messages on. So not only do you need highly trusted and trustworthy folks to communicate with, you need very technically competent and careful ones who will not make mistakes with node security and whose lives and circumstances allow them to take the required precautions. I suspect finding enough of the latter is actually harder than finding enough of the former... And as for OPEN or PUBLIC mailing lists subject to completely anonymous/pseudonymous or weakly vetted subscription - the purpose of encryption would only seem to be to trap fools. Any serious adversary has the means to clandestinely subscribe nearly untraceably, and if they care most will. And obviously then the encryption only encourages loose talk and carelessness that an open list would tend to suppress. -- Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die@dieconsulting.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493 "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either."