It would also be the start of a trend among Extropians: Max O'Connor became Max More; Mark Potts became Mark Plus; Harry Shapiro became Harry Hawk. And Tom Morrow and FM-2030. Nick Szabo was an Extropian.
So did Nick change his name?
Szabo talking about his name and his pseudonyms........(same old info everybody talks about)
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.htmlYes. This Szabo quote from 1993 deserves to be repeated.
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.htmlIn my limited experience creating Internet pseudonyms, I've been quite
distracted by the continual need to avoid leaving pointers to my
True Name lying around -- excess mail to/from my True Name, shared
files, common peculiarities (eg misspellings in written text), traceable
logins, etc. The penet.fi site explicitly maintains a list of pointers
to the original address. All kinds of security controls -- crypto, access,
information, inference -- have to be continually on my mind when using
pseudonymous accounts. The hazards are everywhere.
And I found the summary of the Penet remailer compromises to be interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer