Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:41:54 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net> Cc: jle@gtonet.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Identity theft (was: Re: load spike strangeness) Message-ID: <20000110124154.A55734@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001091803560.7855-100000@acp.swbell.net>; from noslenj@swbell.net on Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:43:16PM -0600 References: <20000110000826.Q51101@bitbox.follo.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001091803560.7855-100000@acp.swbell.net>
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> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Eivind Eklund wrote: > >> It seems that nothing stops the NSA -- not even the law, so I'm not > >> sure that's worth worrying about. > > > >That depends on what you are doing - if what you are doing is related > >to making it easier to detect and/or hinder NSA's spying on you, it > >can be a worthwhile goal. And I tried, mostly as an intellectual > >exercise, to keep that level of security around the nym that I used. > > This is an interesting topic, but one best left to another venue. Were > you succesful in maintaining that security? You mentioned in you > earlier post that it was broken. How? Because I trusted some friends enough to let them learn the connection between the broken nym (let's call it a) and another nym (let's call it b) I was running. At a later point in time, I decided to "cash in" b - I revealed that I was running b, thus claiming credit and taking responsibility for everything b had done (it landed me my first full-time programming job.) A while after this, one of my friends referred to "a/b" instead of "a and b" in a magazine article, thus revealing that they were run by the same person. I do not know of anybody that has traced this connection, but I still regard the intended secure nym as broken - I know it is possible to trace back. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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