[81915] in Cypherpunks
Re: Avoid loud warnings--it only attracts disruptors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Mon Jun 16 19:24:05 1997
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970616134158.4171C-100000@linda.teleport.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:00:28 -0700
To: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 1:45 PM -0700 6/16/97, Alan wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Tim May wrote:
>> (I admit to having a perverse side, too. No suprise to many of you. Several
>> years ago I posted some binaries to the brand-new newsgroup,
>> "alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.children". I claimed they were some hot
>> lolitas, though in fact they were misc. PGP noise, with hidden text
>> messages running down some of the diagonals, to get me off the hook if some
>> DA claimed they were real pictures and demanded the decryption key. I
>> wanted to shake things up. Got a lot of outraged responses, too.)
>
>Were they outraged that it was not kiddy porn or outraged that they could
>not get to it or outraged because you claimed it was kiddy porn? (I tend
>to direct people to
>http://www.thecorporation.com/oneoffs/96/kittyporn/index.html for that
>sort of stuff...)
Some of them said I should be imprisoned for posting erotic images of
children. And some of them wanted me to send them the proper decryption key.
And some even claimed, after I revealed that the supposed GIF images were
not real, that I was nevertheless guilty of "making a market in child
porn." As we've been discussing lately, a classic case of "thoughtcrime."
>Makes you wonder what they were doing reading that group in the first
>place...
No doubt they were "researchers." Got to study those nekkid pictures
really, really carefully, with a magnifyng glass....yeah, "researchers."
Just like "se7en."
--Tim May
There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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