[109664] in Cypherpunks
Melissa offshoot uses nym.alias.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Apr 1 00:21:07 1999
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:00:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
This from ZDNet:
: Syndicate takes the nasty Melissa scourge one step further, letting the
: owner of one e-mail address track its spread. The so-called Syndicate
: virus, reported by Computer Associates, acts just like Melissa -- except
: that it sends out 70 e-mails, 69 that spread the virus to others, and
: one to the e-mail address project1@nym.alias.net that reads "Guess whos
: infected:" followed by the e-mail of the person who just received the
: virus. The e-mail address appears to be anonymous. <P>
nym.alias.net is one of the main cypherpunk-oriented anonymous reply
remailers. Will we see law enforcement try to find out who project1 is?
They would have to trace through a remailer chain. Can it be done?
Are the remailers really secure? Unfortunately the only one who is
likely to find out is "project1" himself.
Of course it's possible that it points at a dummy account anyway.
Would you feel secure enough to put a nym.alias.net address into a virus
which pointed at an account you could be identified with?
