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[Ringo Kamens]

I disagree. Through public pressure and direct action there is
something we could do. But that' a good point. If you run anything
tor-related, we would appreciate if you would sign messages like this
with a public key that you used before. We need to keep safe and
maintain a security culture for the community.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 5/22/07, Jonathan D. Proulx <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:13:05PM -0700, Steven Colbert wrote:
> :Without the use of GnuPG, or something along those lines, how would we
> :know that the "I'm OK message" was really from Joe...?
>
> well we don't, but to paraphrase Ron Rivest paranoia is infinitely
> recursive.  If it was signed maybe THEY got his key and tortured the
> passphrase out of him, we could drag that all the way out to plastic
> surgery and brain washing if you like, there is no perfect proof
>
> What it comes down to to is there no plausable reason for anyone to go
> to such lengths (disappearing from a mailing list is hardly enough to
> get a missing persons report filed), and there's not much we could do
> if THEY did get to him.
>