[109671] in Cypherpunks
Re: Melissa offshoot uses nym.alias.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Thu Apr 1 02:18:53 1999
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:57:43 -0800
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
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.
Snow Crash:
> 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.
OYAH, it could be the Gummint staging a Reichstag Fire. See, I
can be even more paranoid than you. They've been anxiously waiting
since at least 1993 for a situation where crypto is preventing them
from tracking down an evildoer. And the appearance of the GUID as
a clue to the identity of the author of the original is a gift from
heaven to those who want to be able to track everything we do.
Whether they had a hand in the virus generation or not, I'm quite
confident Judge Freeh's amanuensis is copying out his next dozen
presentations to closed Congressional meetings even as I type.
--
Jim Gillogly
10 Astron S.R. 1999, 06:46
12.19.6.1.5, 7 Chicchan 18 Cumku, Seventh Lord of Night
