Politech: BlackNet lives! Group sells confidential source code anonymously

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

This looks eerily like a working implementation of cypherpunk co-founder 
Tim May's BlackNet, which he described over a decade ago:
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/tcmay.htm
http://www.cyphernet.org/cyphernomicon/chapter2/2.13.html

Looks like the real world is (finally) catching up to the cypherpunks.

-Declan

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http://news.com.com/Pssst--wanna+buy+some+source+code%3F/2100-7355_3-5269787.html

Pssst--wanna buy some source code?
Last modified: July 14, 2004, 4:17 PM PDT
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

A group of self-identified hackers has set up shop online to sell what 
it claims are files containing confidential software code--and it says 
it's ready to take orders for more.
The group, which calls itself the Source Code Club, is offering what 
seems to be the stolen source code for an older version of Enterasys 
Networks' Dragon intrusion detection system and Napster's client and 
server software. The price: $16,000 and $10,000, respectively.
As proof that it has the code, the group has put a listing of the files 
online. By using e-mail drops and encryption, the group believes that it 
can keep both the buyer's and its own identity secret.
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