Re: Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

[David Honig]

At 04:44 PM 7/22/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Yes, it does work in the world of building reputations associated with
>> (anonymous
>> or claimed-not-anonymous) keys, but not when you need meatspace credit
>> --give the meat named "Prof Joe" tenure credit for work X.
>
>It is common for real world authors to publish under nom de plumes.
Adding a key to a nom de plume gives added advantages to the nom de plume.
>

A nom de plume which cannot be revealed to the folks one wants credit from
(because you go to meatspace jail when the association is leaked) is
useless for
getting credit in meatspace.  Yes the nym gets credit; but it doesn't help 
you get tenure, or a raise, or invitations to speak.