Re: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-19 Thread mmotyka
If you're already adept with text analysis you should be able to do the complementary operation. Make a system that gathers and analyzes gigabytes of real-world text in order to normalize input text for use with a nym and broaden the correlation with public writings. As it comes more into use it

Re: CDR: Re: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-19 Thread Sunder
Ray Dillinger wrote: Wouldn't your own reputation be blinded by a nym anyway? Nyms are not as hard as most of you seem to assume. Each instance of a nym's use is more data for traffic analysis, and writing styles contain "signature" usages that can identify particular writers with a

Re: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-19 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote: Give me a few dozen writing samples from each of a hundred known people, and another writing sample a hundred words long from one of them under a pseudonym, and I can tell you to a 90% probability which of the hundred known people wrote it. Not

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-18 Thread Trei, Peter
It isn't always private - I can remember a about a dozen years back, there was a bit of a kafuffle over certain Florida counties which had state-sponsored kosher inspectors. I don't remember what happened, but suspect they were dropped. Back when I worked in Manhatten, one of our programmers was

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-17 Thread David Honig
At 08:59 PM 4/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: At 02:06 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: regard to contract enforcement. There has to be a hook where someone who does a ripoff can be punished, or else there is no deal. In infospace, there is

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-17 Thread David Honig
At 09:12 PM 4/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: If the party were truly anonymous there would be no way to identify them to a third party in order to pass the 'reputation capital' along. There would have to be a 'persistent nym', not an anonymous one. Persistent, untraceable nym. Both.

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: At 08:59 PM 4/16/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: At 02:06 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: regard to contract enforcement. There has to be a hook where someone who does a ripoff can be punished, or

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: Persistent, untraceable nym. Both. Untraceables without persistance are useful mostly for email. Persistent untraceable, that's part of the Realization. Well, part of it, probably. The point being there are many 'kinds' of 'anonymity'. They are

Re: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:09:38PM -0700, David Honig wrote: Untraceables without persistance are useful mostly for email. Persistent untraceable, that's part of the Realization. Is that part of the Singularity? :) -Declan

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-17 Thread David Honig
At 08:45 PM 4/17/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: Persistent, untraceable nym. Both. Untraceables without persistance are useful mostly for email. Persistent untraceable, that's part of the Realization. Well, part of it, probably. The point being

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: The diamond-trading jews of New York use reputation (ostracism from the community, centrally enforced by a council that rules their voluntary association) to handle 'arbitration'. They're also responsible to the same law and license that every other

Re: RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-16 Thread Neil Johnson
nday, April 16, 2001 8:57 PM Subject: CDR: RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora) On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: The diamond-trading jews of New York use reputation (ostracism from the community, centrally enforced by a council that rules their vol

RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

2001-04-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Neil Johnson wrote: I was listening to a radio program on NPR (The cypherpunks favorite statist medium :) ). They were discussing the problems with the certification of kosher food. Evidently there are many different organizations with differing ideas on what it