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Re: IPG Algorith Broken!
At 11:21 AM 11/24/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
>
>> > On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
>> > > diGriz
>> >
>> > Use an anon. remailer and sign your posts. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
>
>Actually, rather clever if you're trying to estlablish reputation. Just
>make sure you use the right key.
Reputation is not the only reason to use a "name" with an anon remailer.
Sometimes you want to post (and have a reputation) that is entirely
seperable from your "real life" persona. Maybe you have a job where being
involved with "The Evil Cypherpunks(tm)" could result in hastles at work
(or even firing) if known. (I recieved flack from one company I worked
with for posting here... Until they needed a remailer set up and someone to
explain how their software worked... But that is another story.)
Cypherpunks is gated to a number of Usenet News servers. (Teleport is a
good example.) It is also archived in a number of search engines.
(Altavista if I remember correctly, is one of them.) Someone who does not
want their words to come back any byte them might just use such a method to
protect themselves.
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