Denver Post article on mattd/proffr/AP/Jim Bell/cypherpunks
Tyler Durden
camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 7 16:58:24 PDT 2003
>"The posts made by Professor Rat fall under a relatively new category of
>crime known >as "cyberstalking," >said Jim Doyle, a retired New York City
>police sergeant who now works as a >cybercrimes consultant for a
> >Connecticut company called Internet Crimes.
>The statements made by Professor Rat constitute prosecutable offenses, he
>said.
>"The bottom line is what the victim feels," he said. "Is the victim
>threatened? Is the victim alarmed? >Hey, that's a crime."
Interesting logic here. Someone writes something not-so-nice about somebody
on a list and now that person is being "cyberstalked" even though they're
not a subscriber. And now, the stalk-ee is a victim of a crime. And now the
person who said something "not-so-nice" has committed a crime.
And this guy's a consultant? To whom, I wonder...
Funny enough, I don't rmember seeing any of Prof Rat's posts, and I've never
even killfiled him.
-TD
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
>To: cypherpunks at lne.com
>Subject: Denver Post article on mattd/proffr/AP/Jim Bell/cypherpunks
>Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 17:03:54 -0400
>
>http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1497971,00.html
>
>...
>
>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.
>
>...
>
>The Post is withholding the names of the subjects of posts by Professor Rat
>to avoid promoting any specific threats.
>
>...
>
>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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