Recent Sightings

• He may be posting under tentacles to the cypherpunk list. There's constant speculation on the cypherpunks list whenever something goes wrong that "Detweiling" was behind it. Moreover, there is consensus that list noise is at an all time worst level. Maybe L.D. has finally succeeded in destroying the list signal while evading detection.
• A character on the cypherpunks list named "Vladimir Nuri" has been sighted mocking TCMay and quoted as saying "hee, hee" on repeated occasions, one of L.D.'s characteristic mannerisms. Nuri has written several articles appearing in Risks and Computer Underground Digest.
• A message in Computer Underground Digest reported that L.D. is working on a counterexample to Turing's Halting Proof, and trying to find a polynomial time satisfiability algorithm. Either would tend to be time-consuming.
• There's another rumor that L.D. has been writing a book review column for a computer magazine. The implications of L.D. passing off his opinion on an important subject to a wide audience is of course rather frightening. (Surely such places have good screening processes that would eliminate him in early rounds.)
• Supposedly he had a torrid love affair with a particular female cypherpunk who still routinely harasses him.
• There's a rumor that L.D. went incognito to a San Francisco cypherpunk meeting in the summer of 1995, hanging out at a coffee shop in Haight Asbury and meeting such luminaries he'd ridiculed in the past such as Eric Hughes, Sandy Sandfort, Douglas Barnes, etc.
• There's a rumor that Eric Hughes and Sandy Sandfort invited L.D. to a San Francisco party, even offering to pay his plane fare, but then bailed out when L.D. insisted on a free hour at a cypherpunk meeting to rant to his heart's content. Another story goes that he didn't want to go when he heard TCMay wasn't going to be at either the meeting or the party. Another story goes that L.D. got annoyed when E.H. said, "you can talk about whatever the f*** you want."
• Another rumor was that L.D. was busy maintaining several thriving web sites dedicated to conspiracy theories, including the Vince Foster death and the Oklahoma Bombing, the former the winner of a Web Communications Top 5% award.
• Based on past history, L.D. may be working on one or more FAQs.
• In some versions of MacPGP, L.D.'s name is cited. Rumor has it he converted the Disinfectant help dialog code to it. So he may still be hacking on code these days.
• There's another rumor that L.D. was dinking around with the popular public domain Linux OS and working on a public domain web/groupware package in Perl.
• There's speculation he may be dead and that he actually haunts this site. Some people who visit at dark hours have reported witnessing glimpses of spectral apparitions. On the other hand, these might just be bugs in Netscape.