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Re: protecting against impersonation (was: CANADIAN PRESS REPORTS)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Sat Nov 18 17:40:30 1995

Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 14:43:02 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)

>anonymous writes:
>> I still feel such a sense of violation with what LD did, such an
>> utter sense of helplessness at the character assassination I've
>> suffered at his hands, 
>
>So use PGP, sign your messages.  Simple solution.

Absolutely!  Anybody who uses anonymous remailers to post to public areas,
and does not use digital signatures to prevent spoofing when it is obviously
needed, is a fool or worse.



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