“The one virtually irrefutable piece of evidence for information from 3301 is the presence of the cryptographic signature. Trolls are everywhere and we care about the truth.” What you say is irrelevant unless you can back it up somehow, and even if you can back it up you face a high threshold for credibility.

“The way we (referring to the community I was a part of) reasoned about the authenticity of 3301 information was quite straightforward. I am not going to comment on the accuracy of descriptions made by other persons and I am not going to give all my thoughts on the circumstances as they are presented here, even though they differ significantly from my first hand experience.” In my mind it has a number of inaccuracies, but for the sake of time I will confine my remarks to the areas that concern me and the solvers group that I have been a part of. “I’ve received an email notifying me of the preliminary release of this piece. As long as you keep the quotations faithful to the original meaning I’m alright with them being inlined.

Thus I understand if you pick and choose a bit here, a shard there. I understand your commitment to quote verbatim and in full, but I doubt it is going to be helpful if my remarks are simply attached to the bottom of the full piece. As to how useful that is to you I’m not sure, but if you want information about specific topics feel free to ask. They are not exhaustive, as I’ve restricted them to not include too much about other people. I have written up a text file with my comments, which is attached to this email. It turns out that she herself referred to herself as Yoko in the past, during one of her endless arguments with Thomas Schoenberger.

I described her as “the Yoko Ono of 3301,” a characterization that she adopted as one of her Twitter handles. She is accustomed to manipulate the men around her, and many of them let her get away with it. Beth Bogaerts played one game too many, treating me as one of her pawns. Bogaerts abused an agreement of confidentiality between us, she demanded that I respect her decree that our conversation was “off the record.” I am tired of games, and Ms. When she ordered me to “leave Marcus alone,” meaning Mr. Bogaerts demanded confidentiality from me, yet she inserted herself into an argument that I was keeping her out of. I felt that his response, which immediately follows, was sane and meaningful.īizarrely, Wehrmeyer quickly turned execrable, extracting an excerpt from that draft, twisting it to his purposes, placing me in an impossible position: Ms. Wehrmeyer wrote to me when I invited him to review an early draft of my article about Z 3301. This article includes a response that Mr. Wehrmeyer’s statements are bracketed in quotation marks. My editorial comments are few, included in parentheses, while Mr. I break up his long paragraphs to make them easier to read. Martin Wehrmeyer ( aka brotherBox, aBoxMaybe, who demanded that I embargo his surname and refer to him by the alias brotherBox and in no other way, using bold for the usual reasons. Eric Steven Raymond, How to Become a Hacker, Thyrsus Enterprises, 2001. How much is hard to quantify, but every hacker knows it when they see it.” Gatekeepers have to have a certain degree of seniority and accomplishment before they can bestow the title. But one thing that all hackers understand in their bones is that not every hacker is a gatekeeper. Because the “invisible college” that is hacker culture is a loose and informal one, the role of gatekeeper is informal too. “Sociologists, who study networks like those of the hacker culture under the general rubric of “invisible colleges,” have noted that one characteristic of such networks is that they have gatekeepers–core members with the social authority to endorse new members into the network. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser.” Hackers don’t do this they’re proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. “The problem with screen names or handles deserves some amplification.

Palestine arras io