[13344] in Cypherpunks
Penet addresses in .sigs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rishab@dxm.ernet.in)
Sat May 7 08:13:25 1994
From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Sat, 07 May 94 16:43:28 -5.5
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Uni expounds:
> Mr(s). Anonymous' actions are a separate matter. Mr(s). Anonymous outed
> penet.fi accounts that were created with the express intent of shielding
> identity. This to me is a more offensive issue. Indeed Mr(s). Anonymous is
> (probably) correct when (s)he makes the point that the penet.fi remailer
> isn't very secure, but this point could have been made without the
> ramifications of outing those who might not look on it too fondly.
Maybe Mr(s). Anonymous (some more punctuation and you'd have a new smiley :)
is being credited with too much hard work in 'outing penet.fi accounts'.
A large number of people using anon.penet.fi have this curious habit of
including their _anon pseudonyms_ in their .sigs.
Whether they are just thrilled to have these accounts and are unaware of their
implicit 'outing', or whether they publicise those accounts to _receive_ rather
than send anon mail, I don't know. If I collected such .sig files over the past
few months on this list alone, where people are presumably more aware of
anonymity, I could 'out' many more than Mr(s). Anonymous' three.
This is probably why Mr(s). Anonymous didn't tell us _how_ he got those
addresses!
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