Lauda does not claim to be female. Lauda’s sex* is a secret, unknown even to me.
(* I refuse to use the psychotic liberal word “gender” in application to a person’s sex.)
My previous post on the subject:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225450.msg53957372#post_nothing_is_impossible
On the Identity and Opsec of the Cat
Laura refuses to confirm or deny the accusation that she is female. I have repeatedly interrogated her, in private. Even when I threaten her with rubberhose cryptanalysis of her sex, all that she will tell me is, “I’m a cat.” Quote-unquote.
For her part, that’s not some perverse online game: It is opsec by someone who is totally uninterested in the types of online relationships for which that question would be relevant. (My own relationship with Lauda is strictly one of arts and letters and Bitcoin maximalism, some mild flirtation notwithstanding.)
One whole bit of identifying information is thus ambiguous. A naïve view is that this simply doubles Lauda’s anonymity set. In practice, relatively few women have Lauda’s skills and interests. If Lauda is a man, then the ambiguity increases his anonymity set by maybe a tenth—and misdirects attention into that tenth, which should help confuse intersection attacks across other partitions of his anonymity set. If Lauda is a woman, then the ambiguity increases her anonymity set by at least tenfold—plus wards off unwanted come-ons (a reason for which intelligent women on technical forums sometimes even declare themselves “male”). Either way, it is also a neat $5 monkey-wrench tossed into any attempts to profile Lauda.
Well, that is my analysis in the manner of an informal peer review. Lauda reserves a wise silence on the subject.
I myself profile Lauda as female based on a consistent pattern of observed behaviours that are archetypally feminine. E.g., Lauda treats Bitcoin, Core, and the Bitcoin Forum with the same unlimited, self-sacrificing feminine devotion with which the brilliant primatologist Dr Dian Fossey treated her gorillas and their conservation. When a man is devoted to a cause, his devotion generally manifests quite differently. Also, IRL, I have more or less (cough) known some élite, highly intelligent, decidedly non-“liberal” women who behaved almost identically to Lauda. It is the type who would not give even the time of day to the likes of Timelord2067; thus, perhaps his shallow, sexist assumptions about the categorical opinions of all women may be understandable—albeit still inexcusable.
FWIW. I am usually astute in such matters. If Lauda is actually a man, then I owe him a beer for a hell of a defencive psy-op. Whereas if Lauda is actually a woman, then... I owe her a beer for a hell of a defencive psy-op. Cheers, kitty.
Image source: I have not actually tried this; now, meow, how I want to!
(* I refuse to use the psychotic liberal word “gender” in application to a person’s sex.)
Quote from: Lauda (private conversation)
I'm a cat. That's both my race, gender, sex, species in one. Don't make me quote it and post on the forum
My previous post on the subject:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225450.msg53957372#post_nothing_is_impossible
“Doth this happen, because with women nothing is impossible?” — Nietzsche
On the Identity and Opsec of the Cat
I said for a second time because the first post I made was deleted by moderators but hopefully this one will stay. There is no doubt people can use a facade to create a persona but ther eis no reason to doubt Lauda being female. If Lauda says she is female then I am happy to accept it, unequivocally.
Laura refuses to confirm or deny the accusation that she is female. I have repeatedly interrogated her, in private. Even when I threaten her with rubberhose cryptanalysis of her sex, all that she will tell me is, “I’m a cat.” Quote-unquote.
Whilst travelling on business in Carpathia,
I doxed Lauda:
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I doxed Lauda:
For her part, that’s not some perverse online game: It is opsec by someone who is totally uninterested in the types of online relationships for which that question would be relevant. (My own relationship with Lauda is strictly one of arts and letters and Bitcoin maximalism, some mild flirtation notwithstanding.)
One whole bit of identifying information is thus ambiguous. A naïve view is that this simply doubles Lauda’s anonymity set. In practice, relatively few women have Lauda’s skills and interests. If Lauda is a man, then the ambiguity increases his anonymity set by maybe a tenth—and misdirects attention into that tenth, which should help confuse intersection attacks across other partitions of his anonymity set. If Lauda is a woman, then the ambiguity increases her anonymity set by at least tenfold—plus wards off unwanted come-ons (a reason for which intelligent women on technical forums sometimes even declare themselves “male”). Either way, it is also a neat $5 monkey-wrench tossed into any attempts to profile Lauda.
Well, that is my analysis in the manner of an informal peer review. Lauda reserves a wise silence on the subject.
I myself profile Lauda as female based on a consistent pattern of observed behaviours that are archetypally feminine. E.g., Lauda treats Bitcoin, Core, and the Bitcoin Forum with the same unlimited, self-sacrificing feminine devotion with which the brilliant primatologist Dr Dian Fossey treated her gorillas and their conservation. When a man is devoted to a cause, his devotion generally manifests quite differently. Also, IRL, I have more or less (cough) known some élite, highly intelligent, decidedly non-“liberal” women who behaved almost identically to Lauda. It is the type who would not give even the time of day to the likes of Timelord2067; thus, perhaps his shallow, sexist assumptions about the categorical opinions of all women may be understandable—albeit still inexcusable.
FWIW. I am usually astute in such matters. If Lauda is actually a man, then I owe him a beer for a hell of a defencive psy-op. Whereas if Lauda is actually a woman, then... I owe her a beer for a hell of a defencive psy-op. Cheers, kitty.
Image source: I have not actually tried this; now, meow, how I want to!