From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 05:43:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: PGP compatibility
Message-ID: <199711022136.PAA21739@multi26.netcomi.com>
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Lucky Green wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Robert A. Costner wrote:
>> My copy of PGP 5.0 seems to be completely compatible with 2.6 versions.  This 
>> message is signed, and my key is included within the message for those of you 
>> who have software that discards the non signed portion.  (If you don't know 
>> how to extract my key, copy it and fix the broken dashed line, or use a 
>> keyserver)
>
>Of course your copy of PGP 5.0 is compatible with prior versions. I know
>this, you know this, and the anonymous author claiming otherwise knows
>this. He simply hopes that there are some people that don't know this. The
>idea behind the original post and others like it over the last few days is
>to spread FUD about PGP 5.0 after other attacks failed for lack of merrit.
>If you repeat a lie often enough, eventually some people will believe you. 
>PSYOPS 101. Let's not fall for it.

Actually, the cry of "Infowar!" itself could be used as a disruptive
technique.  It undermines dialogue.  It breeds suspicion and paranoia.
It encourages people to think of those who disagree with them as The
Enemy.  It can be used by a mole for cover.

Gee, come to think of it, isn't Lucky the one who keeps trying to
demoralize everyone by saying that Big Brother is inevitable?

And, who was it that was waving around firearms at a Cypherpunks
meeting?  Isn't that a classic provocateur technique?  (See the Earth
First experience, for example.)

Now, I think it's unlikely that Lucky is a mole.  I'm just trying to
show that once you start witch hunting, it turns out that the supply
of witches tends to be highly responsive to demand.

The Back Technique of fighting Infowar seems to be effective.  Treat
the claims of the suspected Infowarrior as if they are credible and
carefully explain why there is an inaccuracy.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm

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