On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:42 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > Faking two ID's is not much harder than faking one, I suggest mouth > swabs and DNA testing.
Excellent. How about I come over and give you a nice "DNA sample" right on your keyboard? Don't worry, I'll smile the whole time I'm doing it. > > Also, apparently, since you've been dealing with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for > > years, then I must be him, no? Well, my email address above says that I > > am him, so how could I not be? > > Email addresses are easy to fake or steal (the domain might have been > transfered while I was not looking). A strong key is harder to steal of > fake than anyother form of ID, short of an acurate DNA test. In any > case or electronic interactions doe the physical body matter? When you produce a copyrightable work, it must be associated with a real name in the eyes of the law. So yes, there are many cases where your little insignificant meatspace self is more important than your imagined electronic persona. As we have already pointed out, an email address is dead simple to fake, so how exactly is your email address a valid identifier of you and not simply something that you possess? > If you were to discover that LT was really just a front for a committee > made up of Dennis Ritche, Ken Thompson, and Andrew Tannenbaum, would you > suddenly stop using Linux, would you stop accepting that kernel. Well > probably some would, but only because their pride and trust had been > shattred because they and been tricked. But would it really matter? No. I wouldn't care. I didn't sign his GPG key. I won't even go into the fact that I get my kernel from a group of Gentoo developers, and not from some Finn whose existence may or may not be falsified. Remember that once again, we are not talking about anything other than the "web of trust" of PGP. You are the one that continues to move outside that scope simply because you have no valid argument and you appear to think that emotional responses might get people to agree with you. > I find this obsession some have with "real names" to be ammusing an > naieve. On the net the only name I have that counts, is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I find your lack of a valid argument annoying at best. I also think this it is quite obvious that you are set on your "My name is my email address because I'm online and that makes me different than me" argument and no amount of logical explanation will change that, so this will be my last response to you in this thread. If you don't like GPG, don't use it. Your arguments have nothing to do with GPG or key-signing any more then my arguments have to do with the atomic mass of Tungsten. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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