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Well, John Cooley has thoroughly put his foot in his mouth, and seems to
be determined to put it in deeper, so all that's left is to sum it up.

First Cooley claimed:

> My PGP software says that this post didn't come from Gary at all! 
Someone's > hacked Gary's account or he's misrepresenting his own PGP
verification key > as a head game on us!

I then challenged Cooley to post my PGP public key, which he was
implicitly claiming to have. His response was pure bluster. He did not
have my key; he did not check it; he did not discover that it didn't
verify.  (A side point for those who aren't familiar with PGP: If a
signature doesn't verify, it's normally more likely that the message
was somehow damaged in transit than that it was forged; almost anyone
who is familiar with PGP knows that, thus providing a strong indication
that Cooley was bluffing.)

First Cooley tried ridiculing those who use PGP. When that didn't work,
he resorted to outright lies to discredit PGP and/or its users. 
Instead, he provided an excellent demonstration of the reason for
semi-regularly signing one's posts.

Let's suppose -- just as a hypothetical scenario -- that in a desperate
attempt to cover up his deception, Cooley had posted a forged key with
my name on it. Then all I would have had to do is to post my actual
public key, and people would have been able to see that my key, and not
the counterfeit, matched my previous posts and the fingerprint which is
in my .sig.

Just for the fun of it, my public key follows this message.

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Version: 2.6.2

iQBVAwUBL+dZO+4rHMPCLWOFAQFzJQH9EozqKNgwlTV/d5kI7xjRyXldfvEG9PeU
dUp+yJIuJGraJlDUBwEeZTtx1pUe5dHHcupdILC3X8SfhPw/d135uw==
=wuEc
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Version: 2.6

mQBPAi4f+UIAAAECAMoTnJrLlfwbtugQLgz4uYMGDiQnBL1hR6BTK53LV9D7h2lF
L/hrkruXn1Qkbfw7GtryWnmmJJIC7iscw8ItY4UAEQEAAbQhR2FyeSBELiBNY0dh
dGg8Z21jZ2F0aEBtdi5tdi5jb20+
=iquW
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-- 
          Gary McGath
          gmcgath@condes.mv.com
PGP Fingerprint: 3E B3 62 C8 F8 9E E9 3A  67 E7 71 99 71 BD FA 29