Re: [OT] The PGP Signed Posts Farce

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:59:03 GMT

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:13:14 GMT, dkoleary@attbi.com <dkoleary@attbi.com> wrote:
>
>
> WTFO?
>
> Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:20:08 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <ptb@it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>
>> Peter-- I'll never read another one of your mean and childish posts.
>
>> I don't use my real name here. Not even my ISP has it.
>
> Isn't this what he's been bitching about in this and every other
> rant he's had? Christ! What a pinhead!
>

What I've been saying, which you actually know perfectly well, is that
PGPsigs don't do anything real about preventing impersonation or
establishing a persons identity.

You see, I could easily get a PGPsig/key in any name I chose to put
in my headers up there. As could anyone.

That's merely one of the reasons why PGPsig/keys are a waste of time.

Personally I think anyone that uses their real name on the Usenet is
a fool.

Nor do I believe that someone with a PGPsig key, a website with family
photos, and an address in a phonebook someplace, all with the same name,
are necessarily who and where they say they are.

All of these things are easy as pie to create or acquire, as are ISP
accounts under false names: They accept Money Orders.

The Internet is the Land of Illusions, and anyone who thinks it will ever
be anything else is a fool.

Do you know where I am? Here's a clue: No one around me, from dawn until
dark, can ever be heard speaking English.

Now take a look at my headers. Here's another clue: Earthlink doesn't
offer any service within hundreds of miles (at least) of my location.

And I am not even very good at this sort of thing.

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For maliciously mis-representing a fellow Usenet user's post: killfiled
for 90 days.

And I am now searching the Usenet Archives for headers that match yours.
(not the ones you can modify....the other ones.) I wrote a nice script
that moves along pretty quickly

Am really curious about all these strangers showing up to attack people
who want to discuss PGP.

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And by the way, bozo, I use ed here and only read one line at a time.

I didn't see any of the rest before I deleted it. 

-- 
Alan C    this post ends with    w
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