Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

[Jim Choate]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote:

> At 04:07 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> >On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >
> >And your possible motive for spreading the word about his reputation, 
> >which ties you to an illicit transaction, is what exactly?
> >
> >				Bear
> 
> Anonymity is the shield; 
> Human nature is the motivation.
> 
> Any questions? 

More a statement.

You're confusing pseudonymit and plausible deniability with anonymity.

If the party were truly anonymous there would be no way to identify them
to a third party in order to pass the 'reputation capital' along.

There would have to be a 'persistent nym', not an anonymous one.

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