From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:15:22 -0800 (PST)
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: "censorship in cyberspace"???
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Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
> I don't understand why people rant so much about censorship
> in cyberspace, given the ease of buying a new tentacle.

[snip]

> p.s. one of these days I wonder if someone is going to mount
> a really concerted attack against a mailing list using a
> full tentacle arsenal instead of only a single email address
> or anonymous remailers, just for the kicks of it.
> the "automatic prose generator" technology out there leaves a lot
> of other interesting ideas. an ingenious software engineer
> with a flair for writing could create some pretty sophisticated
> grammars that automatically generate text yet are impossible
> to detect over perhaps even dozens of messages output by them.
> they could even have their own personalities and writing styles,
> if the software engineer were creative and devious enough.

[snip]

It was suggested that concerned people would want to band together and defend against
this sort of thing.  I say, since the govt. and media (same thing) use heaps of this
stuff against us, and have been doing so for years, why doesn't some of that energy
being coordinated for "cracking" DES be turned into the same kind of disinformation
weapon described above, and used against the oppressors of the people?