Clue to So-Called Missing Jim Bell-AP Messages

[John Young]

The Tim May message came from the cpunks archives. Tim died not long ago.

The archives hold quite a bit of discussion about prosecution of Jim 
Bell and CJ Parker and various subpoenas disclosed and presumbably 
some which were not. Likely several persons were contacted directly 
by the prosecutors but not shared on the list. That continues.

No question cpunks  has served as a waterhole to be spied by 
predators. So too the whole Internet, public and private archives, 
anonymizers, so on.

 From the beginning there have been plants of informers, instigators, 
provocateurs, and kin stirring the pot. IP hosts and system 
administrators remain the primary sources of data, overt and covert.

Multi-level log files are ubiquitous, from identifying packets to end 
to end foolhardists. No way to use the Internet undetected. Programs 
that promise that are deceptive, Tor only one of the ploys. Privacy 
has been a sham from the get-go,  Comsec and infosec, crypto in 
particular, are porous by design, ignorance, opportunism, profit. 
Open source a cartoonish protective condom, adherents of it are con artists.

Cpunks like leak sites are stings, witting or unwitting. Mea culpa.

Jim Bell is a Sabu, subject to federal sanctions as ex-con if not 
willing to solicit supporters and unwary victims. There are thousands 
of them. Those most loudly anti-authority are the experts of betrayal 
for kings coin and to avoid going back to jail.

Cpunks archives offer much to support this critique, other archives 
and live action even more. Cyber security is a huge racket profiting 
from deliberately ineffective cybersec.