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
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