[52668] in Cypherpunks
Remailer restrictions: coming soon to your burg?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robichaux, Paul E)
Tue Mar 26 10:25:45 1996
From: "Robichaux, Paul E" <perobich@ingr.com>
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:28:07 -0600
Josh Quitter recounts the sorry tale of a small-town city councilman whose
phone number got attached to one of those phone-sex ads in alt.binaries.*.
See
<http://pathfinder.com/@@EGI8H7KFBQAAQAGs/time/magazine/domestic/1996/960401
/web.html> for full details.
So, what does the councilman do? From the article:
>On Feb. 6, at Suponcic's urging, the Willowick city council passed a
resolution asking the state
>and federal governments to close the "loopholes" that allowed anonymous
remailers to operate
>outside the authority of U.S. law-enforcement officials. "Once you've
achieved one of these
>anonymous identities, you're dangerous, and there's no way law enforcement
can track it,"
>Suponcic says. "The animal's out of control."
Just like with "communications decency", watch out at the local level.
-Paul
