[46331] in Cypherpunks
Re: Risks of writing a remailer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Ghio)
Tue Jan 2 23:13:46 1996
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 20:01 PST
From: ghio@c2.org (Matthew Ghio)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Anonymous (nobody@flame.alias.net) wrote:
> What are the legal risks of writing (and releasing) a remailer,
> and what steps can an author go to to minimise any unwanted (legal
> or civil) attention ?
I've never heard of anyone complaining that I wrote a remailer. A few
were upset at my running a remailer, but nobody every complained that the
software was available.
As far as minimizing attention to yourself, you obviously know how to
post anonymously.