At 08:54 PM 3/28/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >Listen up. Cypherpunks is a cryptography list, and al-qaeda.net is a node.
True so far Well, al-qaeda.net is a DNS record, and the list includes social issues related to crypto-related tech, but lets start off by giving you the point. >The subscribers to this list may or may not sympathize with the activites of >the "Real" "al-qaeda". Sorry, but the prefix "Real" is the intellectual property of an IRA (tm) spinoff in this context. Our lawyers will be contacting you. The name al-qaeda is, I suspect, more or less >tongue-in-cheek, Really? and at the least (or perhaps the most) a head-nod at some >of the gripes that real organization has with the US government, and those >that continue to support it's activites abroad. Getting pretty heavy there Tyler Ever consider that it might be a *reminder* that if isn't good enough for Osama, its not good enough for you? However, there does not >appear to be any regular posters to this list that are involved with >al-qaeda the "terror" network. (Actually, if there are, it would be >interesting to hear from them via the remailers.) Everyone, search your wallet for official Al Q membership cards. (I suppose female members may have trouble telling if its themselves under the scarves on the ID.. except for the Florida branch of Al Q) >Cypherpunks is an extremely diverse group of indivduals, and wanna-be individuals >that do not appear >to agree on a great many number of things. Really? What binds us together (if >anything) is the interest in cryptographic techniques that would appear to >offer the capability of secure communications, with "communications" meaning >any kind of transaction that can be transmitted by data over electronic or >optoelectronic networks. *Way* too specific dude. Also interested in opsec generally. (All your crypto is belong to us if I can get to your machine..) Communications can be smoke signals. (Would that be optical comms?) Or the positions of cards in a deck. Or the positions of hands in a shipment of watches. Another thing that seems to bind us (and again >"bind" is probably a poor choice of words) is an extreme tolerance to >opinions very different from that of any one subscriber. What the fuck are you ingesting tonight? "extreme tolerance to opinions"?? Its only because it would be self-parodying that accusations of nazihood don't fly. Even with Tim gone, praise be unto him. On the other hand, in our better moods we try to educate each other. >Therefore please get a fuckin' clue. If you want to discuss the role of >"Radical" Islam in contemporary world politics, I'm sure there are those >that would be interested in doing so. Not here. >Otherwise, please fuck off. If you've been getting this kind of cameldung *personally*, this is yet another reward of using a 1-way pseudonym. ---- There is no god and Murphy is his prophet.