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RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Sat Aug 10 15:08:55 2002
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:02:54 -0400 (EDT)
To: cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020810131237.260I-100000@einstein.ssz.com>
Jim Choate writes:
>
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > AARG!Anonymous writes:
> > > So don't read too much into the fact that a bunch of anonymous postings
> > > have suddenly started appearing from one particular remailer. For your
> > > information, I have sent over 400 anonymous messages in the past year
> > > to cypherpunks, coderpunks, sci.crypt and the cryptography list (35
> > > of them on TCPA related topics).
> >
> > We have, of course, no way to verify this fact, since your messages
> > are not cryptographically signed. For someone who claims to be
> > knowledgable about cryptography, this seems like a suspicious omission.
>
> Bullshit Russ, plausable deniability alone justifies such behaviour.
>
> Who sent them is irrelevant except to cultists of personality (eg CACL
> adherents).
I agree that it's irrelevant. So why is he trying to argue from
authority (always a fallacy anyway) without *even* having any way to
prove that he is that authority? Fine, let him desire plausible
deniability. I plausibly deny his appeal to (self-)authority as being
completely without merit.
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