From ld231782 Sat Nov 20 21:42:55 1993 Return-Path: Received: from traver.lance.colostate.edu by longs.lance.colostate.edu (5.65/lance.1.5) id AA17097; Sat, 20 Nov 93 21:42:43 -0700 Message-Id: <9311210442.AA17097@longs.lance.colostate.edu> To: anon@anon.penet.fi X-Anon-Password: poison X-Anon-To: rants@wired.com Cc: ld231782 Subject: The Subversions of Cypherpunks Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 21:42:41 -0700 From: "L. Detweiler" X-Mts: smtp Editor: Regarding your issue on Cypherpunks, I have maintained a strong involvement and close scrutiny of the `movement' and leadership over many months. Based on careful analysis of thousands of messages, public and private, this group appears to me to be a subversive organization seeking to destabilize existing infrastructures and government institutions to achieve a `CryptoAnarchy' -- widespread black markets, tax evasion, and complete toppling of governments. Furthermore, I believe they are using their public mailing list, from which much of their notoriety has been achieved, as a sophisticated disinformation and brainwashing outlet. They ostensibly promote ideas like `privacy for the masses' and `the cryptographic revolution' while actually, behind the scenes, conspire to perfect cyberspatial guerilla-style tactics in assaulting anything that stands in their way in cyberspatial domination, with insideous techniques such as identity forgery -- which forms the basis of their black science, art, and religion. I am convinced they have deceived many respectable outlets of the media, such as the New York Times and yourselves included, over their aims and accomplishments. For example, based on comments overheard on the mailing list at the time, an ebullient letter supposedly in response to your own article that appeared in a subsequent edition may have been faked by co-conspirators. The cypherpunks have orgasms over this kind of manipulation, and I assure you it represents the very least of their perversions. They would not stop at hiring actors to deceive reporters. In my opinion, the top Cypherpunks are all guerillas, terrorists, and cryptoanarchists engaged in a subtle, invisible, but extremely destructive deception, espionage, and sabotage. Simply put, they are poisoning Cyberspace. The Cypherpunk `movement' is a massive hoax being perpetrated by a small deluded cult of radicals, fanatics, and hallucinators who hold that Democracy is Oppressive and that any form of government or law enforcement is invariably Totalitarian and entirely superfluous. They routinely twist the English language to cloak and rationalize their treacherous lies. The only differences between the Cypherpunk `movement' and the amazing Wells `War of the Worlds' radio hoax is that the former has not yet been exposed, the former is being promulgated far more globally and insideously over many cyberspatial and media outlets by an entire group, and in the later the perpetrator eventually apologized in the face of ensuing public outrage and uproar. No cypherpunk will ever apologize for his treasonous deceptions. Quite to the contrary, they will defend it all as Patriotism to their deaths. I pray that others will wake up and save Cyberspace from the constricting vice of fangs and venom of Medusa's Snakes. Sincerely, S.Boxx