Yes, I agree, it's pretty much impossible to distinguish myself from a nation-state's covert agency. Hence, I only asked how to claim a pseudonym.
David Chadwick: > Its pretty much impossible to distinguish a nation-state's covert agency > personnel who are masquerading as someone else from the real someone > else. In the UK we have recently had examples of undercover agents > infiltrating animal rights groups or similar as activists, forming deep > emotional relationships with female members, moving in with them, having > children with them, and then years later, after the group has been > smashed, disappearing from the scene. One such lady victim saw the > picture of a policeman years later (I think in a newspaper) and > recognised him as the father of her child, which is when the scam was > blown open. So in short, these agencies do not find it difficult to do > anything that they need or want to do > > regards > > David > > On 26/03/2013 17:36, Johnicholas Hines wrote: >> The question is how to distinguish yourself from a nation-state's covert >> agency purporting to be an individual interested in anonymity; you need >> to do something that the agency would find difficult to do. >> >> Getting your name and key into difficult-to-corrupt archives will start >> a timer - eventually you can point to the archives as evidence that you >> are not a newcomer. Even an agency would find it difficult to change >> history. >> >> Spending money or effort forces a covert agency to also spend money or >> effort to replicate your behavior. For example, if you sent someone a >> bitcoin, they would have to spend some dollars to establish themselves >> as comparably credible. Unfortunately, they have deep pockets. Effort >> might be preferable to money, since leaves more ways that a covert >> agency might make a mistake, behaving in some characteristic way (e.g. >> some sort of automatic authorship attribution software might become >> available that revealed them to be a team rather than an individual). >> Steady effort at releasing patches over a decade might be moderately >> credible. >> >> Johnicholas >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnupg-users mailing list >> Gnupg-users@gnupg.org >> http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >> > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users