Denver Post article on mattd/proffr/AP/Jim Bell/cypherpunks

[Declan McCullagh]

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1497971,00.html

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The development of digital money, and encryption software restricting 
government's ability to monitor Internet activity, are common goals among 
the online anarchists and libertarians known as "cypherpunks."

The ultimate purpose of Assassination Politics is to deter people from 
working for government agencies, corporate media outlets or institutions 
"beholden to the violence of the state," Taylor said.

Professor Rat also has threatened a University of Ottawa law professor, a 
columnist for The Boston Globe and a Cincinnati police officer.

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The Post is withholding the names of the subjects of posts by Professor Rat 
to avoid promoting any specific threats.

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Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles 
and a First Amendment specialist, said the threats were probably criminal, 
given Taylor's description of the purpose of Assassination Politics.

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