Re: Dishonest Forks? | Was - Re: [Namedroppers-honest] Brian Smith asks: Who is Dean Anderson?

On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:

>  Day and Kaminsky have been outed as
> frauds. Even MIT's Technology Review reports that Kaminsky didn't
> discover anything. It was all a scam to get people to switch to OpenDNS.  
> The second effort was to introduce weakness into DJBDNS.  Day and
> Kaminsky et al (Dempsky) won't take accountability for the "Mark
> Johnson" sock puppet purveying their "changes". I think responsible
> people know who is credible and who is not.
> 

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> The contents of message you cite were false, fraudulent statements. The
> message (PR-action charges) is in fact the work of Vixie cartel, for the
> benefit of the Vixie cartel.  Kaminsky, Day and Dempsky are connected to
> the Vixie cartel, so this is hardly an independent statement.
> 


I have stated more times than I can count... I have absolutely no connection what so ever to any of these people. You keep saying I do, and using this as a basis for many of your other assertions, but have not explained where you came to this conclusion beyond lumping everyone you don't trust into complex intertwined conspiracies.

Lets try to end this here.

I have never met, entered into a contract with, employed, became employed by, exchanged money with, conspired with, traded with, or worked with Dan Kaminsky, Mark Johnson, Paul Vixie, Matthew Dempsky, OpenDNS, ISC, Vixie Enterprises, or any of their related companies to the best of my knowledge. I have no knowledge of any "conspiracy" between any of the previously named individuals/companies. Disclaimers: Approximately 10 years ago I submitted a patch to Paul Vixie's cron daemon that he did not use. Approximately 12 years ago a company that I was an officer of purchased a T1 from MFN while Paul Vixie was CTO, but we had no contact with each other during that time. Paul is also the chairman of ARIN's board of trustees, my company is an ARIN member. We use OpenDNS to resolve RBLs on our mail server, since it's faster than direct lookups in most cases, but we are not a paying customer. I have never been to the Black Hat conference. I have no vested interest in whether or not people use OpenDNS, and don't particularly care. I don't believe that Mark Johnson is a "sock puppet", and if he is, I have no knowledge or involvement.

If you can provide tangible documentation to show that anything in the previous paragraph is untrue, and convince a mutually acceptable neutral third party of its accuracy and relevance, I'll donate $100 to the D.J. Bernstein Writing Fund(http://cr.yp.to/donations.html), or the recognized charity of your choice.

If you can provide mathematical proof that the paper presented at NDSS (http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/09/pdf/15.pdf) contains errors that would cause more harm than benefit from implementing the changes outlined there, and convince a mutually acceptable neutral third party, I'll donate a further $100.

You keep asserting these statements as fact, and when pressed for follow up, you shift the conspiracy theory somewhere else, or incorporate new pieces. If you cannot back up these statements with any kind of documentation to show the rest of us, they aren't facts but your own unsubstantiated gut feelings. If these really are facts, prove it. If not, label them as your unsubstantiated feelings and lets move on.

-- Kevin