Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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> > > Yes, it does work in the world of building reputations
> > > associated with (anonymous or claimed-not-anonymous) keys, but
> > > not when you need meatspace credit --give the meat named "Prof
> > > Joe" tenure credit for work X.

James A. Donald:
> > It is common for real world authors to publish under nom de
> > plumes. Adding a key to a nom de plume gives added advantages to
> > the nom de plume.

David Honig wrote:
> A nom de plume which cannot be revealed to the folks one wants
> credit from (because you go to meatspace jail when the association
> is leaked) is useless for getting credit in meatspace.  Yes the nym
> gets credit; but it doesn't help you get tenure, or a raise, or
> invitations to speak.

The advantage of a nom de plume is that it can be selectively revealed, revealed to some people and not others, or revealed to everyone at a later date depending on how things turned out.   Adding a public key to a nom de plume improves that advantage,

The same is true of a nom de guerre, only even more so.  To inopportunely reveal a nom de guerre is likely to be fatal.  To be unable ot prove a nom de guerre may well result in the loss an personal gains resulting from victory.
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