[118078] in Cypherpunks
Re: anon.penet.fi shutdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Sun Sep 19 06:38:31 1999
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:20:16 +0100
Message-Id: <199909190920.KAA10745@server.cypherspace.org>
From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Cc: jim@acm.org
In-reply-to: <b08468193ddfeabb9942a4bc49e94a54@anonymous> (message from Secret
Squirrel on 18 Sep 1999 09:24:50 -0000)
Reply-To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
Secret Squirrel writes:
> My information is from
> http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.98.03.30-98.04.05/msg00066.html
> "Anon.penet.fi case closed! (fwd)" from Ulf. It says:
>
> an498608@anon.penet.fi = veno@alpha.c2.org
> an545430@anon.penet.fi = helen@alpha.c2.org
Yeah, I thought that was cool -- weak nyms hiding strong nyms. Gives
the attackers a false sense of traceability until they hit the real
nyms :-)
A stronger variant on the same theme is a type I remailer reply block,
pointing at a newsgroup.
Or perhaps a hotmail account... though we'd need a nymserver able to
fetch incoming nym mail from hotmail. (There's some perl code out
there by Ian Goldberg to do hotmail fetching).
Adam
