It was discovered a while back, check the archives, or Tim's FAQ, that all the remailers were compromised, with or without the operator's complicity with TLAs. After that discovery there was a turning of the covert control to re-direct it toward its implementer(s). That was soon re-turned by the TLAs back at the turners, a cycle-countercycle that continues now. One day you may be read by the TLAs, the next read by the remailer operators, each looking for evidence of nefarium by the other so that countermeasures can be invented and deployed. While the remailer/coopt-remailer make-work has kept a couple of cut-out remailer operators busy in Bhopal keeping the TLAs focussed on threats to the institutionalized suppression of anonymous speech, astute anonymity performers are jabbering at mirrors and pontificating to pets against law and order elsewhere. For a small fortune you can subscribe to a source of absolutely secure means of communications tested by centuries of reliability. Blind Faith. No, not that of the Masons, and certainly not nouveau-cult Skull and Bones, nor even Tri-Lateral Commies, what you have to do to get entry is to Fedex weapons grade anthrax to the homes (and/or lovers) of heads of government worldwide. You get ten HoGs, or 5,000 celebrities, certifiable by swissbank.com forwarded to you of their secret account deposits, you're in. Call yourself god's emissary. And then a target for someone younger and smarter and far uglier in ruthless mayhem, driven by murderous, most often suicidal, hatred for everything holy. Dread of easily-blameworthy TLAs is for cotton-candy addicts. Fear not those carrying a peashooter, instead those armed with horrifying urges beyond belief.