[81572] in Cypherpunks
Re: Untraceable Contract Killings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vladimir Z. Nuri)
Tue Jun 10 21:56:57 1997
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, vznuri@netcom.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jun 97 09:25:35 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 97 17:45:58 -0700
From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Reply-To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
TCM
>Nonsense. The mechanisms for arranging the hit are untraceable. Thus, it
>hardly matters who the "suspects" are, as nothing is provable. (Assuming no
>implicating ephemera are left lying around on disk drives....)
>
>By the way, this is not really Bell's "assassination politics," this is
>just anonymous contract killings, known about to some of us since Chaum's
>work was first published...cf. my own "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto," 1988.
>
>I may sound touchy on this issue, but I'm seeing more and more articles
>here and relayed from outside essentially giving Bell the credit for
>inventing these kinds of markets, when in fact he's a relative latecomer.
why be bashful, timmy? go ahead and say it.
"I invented the concept of anonymous contract killings via cyberspace,
and I'm quite proud of this, and it annoys me when people don't give me
proper credit"