Most of the Bay Area cypherpunks meetings are public gatherings
at which anonymous or pseudonymous individuals may show up.
People don't tend to stay anonymous, but we've had people
who didn't mention names, and people who introduced themselves as
"Lucky Green" and "Black Unicorn" and "Lawrence from Boulder".
(In the latter case, he left about halfway through, and only after that
did Eric Hughes get the "Hey, wait! Lawrence from Boulder?!?!?!?"
meme which everybody who'd realized it earlier had been too polite
to bring up...) We've probably had people who introduced themselves as
"Dave" or "Eric" or something common without mentioning a last name.
We've met at picnic table locations and Mrs. Fields' Cookies
where people who aren't Known Usual Suspects were hanging around also.
Also, we'll be meeting October 31st at 16th & Castro in San Francisco;
wear a mask.
At 11:58 AM 8/24/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
>At 01:09 AM 8/24/00 -0400, L. Sassaman wrote:
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>>Please explain to me how you could have a public gathering of anonymous
>>individuals. I don't think that it is possible to do what is being
>>proposed: plan, anonymously, a gathering of people organized on the
>>Internet and conducted in physical space. Do this in such a way that no
>>attendee needs to know the identity of any other, and make it so that
>>malicious attendees (law enforcement, Scientologists, etc.) are
>>irrelevant. Not only should the anonymity of each person be preserved, but
>>there should be no correlations between the "cyberspace" and
>>"meatspace" existences.
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>Does the 2600 plan of meeting at a public place at a certain time not count?
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>How about setting up a 'front' booth at a public place, with the title
>of the meeting prominent, so that anons would be able to pretend to
>accidentally discover it?
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>What if everyone puts on a mask first?
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>What are the requirements for these anon-meat meetings? I don't see
>why if N anonymous people arrange it publicly, and M >> N arrive,
>anonymity is lost. The N arrangers could all not even show.
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Thanks!
Bill
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