[80109] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymous Remailers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu May 15 02:47:34 1997
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 18:01:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: "Roger J. Jones" <cyber@ibpinc.com>
Cc: "'cypherpunks@toad.com'" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BC603F.4B529240@pc1901.ibpinc.com>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Roger J. Jones wrote:
> Why is it that some who are very concerned about their personal privacy utilize anonymous remailers that:
>
> 1) Log all of their mail messages?
> 2) Are in many cases reputed to be run by foreign intelligence services?
Net.myths
> Do they really trust the owner of the remailer? (Unless of course, it is
their remailer?) I seem to be missing something.
You are missing the fact that you can chain remailers. Therefore it is
pretty much irrelevant if some remailers are compromised.
Then again, I know several remailer operators personally. Which makes me
less worried about the them being foreign intelligence agents.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
