The Cypherpunk's 1995 Archive has been forged, and what are we going to do about it? (was:Re: Could someone add news of Cypherpunks Archive...

[jim bell]

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I am including Ryan Lackey in this thread, since he seems to have been involved in the Cypherpunks archive during the relevant time frame.
Ryan, I have discovered extensive data omissions in (at least) the 1995 Cypherpunks data archive.  These errors or omissions seem to have existed as early as 2003.  They have been discussed for  a few weeks on the Cypherpunks list.  There is an almost total omission of emails  between the dates of about February 14, 1995, and July 10, 1995.  Furthermore, from July 11 1995 onwards to the end of 1995, there are almost no strings like this:
"jim bell",  "jimbell at pacifier.com", " AP ", "Assassination Politics".  
Yet, there are thousands of other messages.   It appears that emails containing such strings, and possibly others, have been carefully excised from the database,   Curiously, the very few (15?) instances where " AP " appears are almost entirely referring to the Associated Press, not Assassination Politics,  So, this editing could not easily have been done with a simple, blind string-search:  It probably would have had to include careful human assistance.
We'd like to hear of your recollection of the history of the Cypherpunks Archive, how it came to be, etc.  
                  Jim Bell


    On Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 01:43:48 PM PST, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
  Still no response.  And, I don't see any enthusiastic efforts from others currently on CP to contact any other journalists or previous CP people to help uncover this mystery.   Will this become embarrassing?   Yes.   
               Jim Bell


    On Monday, November 18, 2019, 10:42:26 AM PST, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
  Well, I sent out an email to Declan McCullagh,  declan at well.com,  and so far no reply.   At least openly, there would not appear to be any reason he should resist the idea of returning and helping us figure out what happened with the faked 1995 archive.  He apparently continues to write news articles,   https://muckrack.com/declan-mccullagh/articles , and at least from their titles they sound well-meaning.  This would certainly amount to a big story, and he certainly can't claim the subject isn't interesting given the history of his articles.  
However, his position stated to me in about March 2002 (about the time I was transferred to USP Atwater California; I had been at USP Lompoc for a few months before that) was initially that he was going to visit (because he was attending an event somewhere in the Bay area, as I recall), but after that he didn't bother to show up and it wasn't the reason he claimed:  'something came up':  In fact, he didn't even fill out and return a (necessary) Visitor's application, which would have been automatically approved.  So, evidently, Declan had decided weeks before that he had no intention of visiting me:  Without that form and routine approval, he would not have been allowed to visit.  He knew that.
So, I request that as many people as possible contact him and make this request directly.  He may feel uncomfortable, but he has a degree of responsibility, at least as a participant in the Cypherpunks list in 1995-96 and probably beyond, and as a witness, and as a person who no doubt reported the government's line during 1997-2002, but didn't bother to do anything to publicize my side of the story.  And in the end, I had done probably 12 more years in prison BECAUSE my story hadn't been told.
Declan should contact the people involved with the Cypherpunks archives, or keeping of the data.  I am confident that it wouldn't take long to figure out what happened.  
             Jim Bell


            
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