[109667] in Cypherpunks
Re: Melissa offshoot uses nym.alias.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Snow Crash)
Thu Apr 1 01:16:02 1999
In-Reply-To: <199904010500.HAA18409@mail.replay.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:59:50 -0600
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Snow Crash <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Reply-To: Snow Crash <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Anon:
>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?
OTOH, it could be a cypherpunk "testing the security" of the
remailers, seeing _if_ the remailer network could be compromised, or it
could be the Church of Satan/Databasix trying a huge public stunt to get
remailer outlawed.
Paranoia may be your friend, but it DOESN'T help you sleep at night.
--
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