[42090] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Tien)
Mon Oct 23 22:40:59 1995
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 18:52:11 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tien@well.sf.ca.us (Lee Tien)
s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, t byfield wrote:
>
>> At 9:42 AM 10/18/95, Hal wrote:
>>
>> Of course. The problem is that protocols as implemented permit
>> header-forging: it's a practical fact of the net, and one that maybe
>> shouldn't be overlooked on (basically vague) 'moral' grounds, any more than
>
>The courts can't overlook it either. There goes liability. If I posted
>pirated software from this account, according to what you're saying, I could
>claim a forgery and show reasonable doubt.
How difficult is it to forge headers? How difficult is it to trace a
message to the actual sender if the header is forged? Is there a way to
quantify traceability on a simple scale, for rough purposes?
Lee
Lee Tien
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