[87185] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailer Attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradley)
Fri Sep 26 16:09:04 1997
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:19:59 +0000 ( )
From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v03102801b050a29e2f1f@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
> * increased traffic at all levels
Cover traffic bots are, to my knowledge, not yet implemented in any of
the "eze-remailer (tm)" software packages like private idaho etc... Maybe
this is a feature to think about for their authors for future revisions???
> * a profit motive for remailers, using "digital postage" (though this may
> work against the second point, having more traffic)
I have never thought this was a good idea, commercialising the remailer
market, and indeed any market, not only gives a further incentive for
government intervention but also allows for the remailer operators to be
prosecuted for content more easily, providing a free service allows one
to claim "common carrier" status more eaily.
> * more chaining tools for average users (on Windows and Macintosh machines,
> using standard mailers)
Yes, private idaho is an excellent package, but many users do not want
the extra work of setting up another mailer which, in the buggy windoze
environment may even lead to clashes and other such nastiness.
Integration into mailers such as pegasus and eudora would be nice, I`m
sure there must be a plugin for eudora by now but I`m pretty sure there
is no such plugin for pegasus.
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