[118666] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hypothetical Scenario #1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Tue Oct 5 03:52:54 1999
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 00:29:48 -0700
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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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At 4:32 PM -0700 1999-10-04, unwelcome_guest@catholic.org wrote:
>Hypothetical Scenario #1
>
>In our scenario, there comes a time when the Powers That Be decide to
>throw resources at discrediting the growing pro-privacy movement.
>
>As we all know, the Four Horsemen (in anti-crypto propaganda) are
>drug dealers, terrorists, organized crime syndicates, and child
>pornographers.
>
>A message is sent anonymously to a list like ours. The message
>contains a pro-drugdealingterroristpedophiliacmobster rant.
Where have you been all these years? Such messages began to appear soon
after the first remailers became operational.
>
>The message is received on the hard drives of all members of the
>list.
Your language is strained. "Received on the hard drives"?
Happens all the time.
>
>Key members of the list are tracked down and "invited" to a
>Congressional hearing.
Why?
(You seem to have left out the step in which the cops get search warrants,
etc. Else how would Congress "know" what was on the "hard drives" of "key
members"?)
>
>Said message is used as evidence against us in a McCarthy-style
>witchhunt.
See earlier point. A Congressional hearing, unlikely as that may be for
something so trivial as anonymous weird messages, won't produce "said
messages."
Get a grip.
--Tim May
Y2K: It's not the odds, it's the stakes.
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