On Sat, 17 Sep 1994, Doug Cutrell wrote:
[...] It still might be possible to have anonymous remailers operating safely outside the borders of the country -- but it would be possible to monitor for traffic *destined* for these remailers, leaving the country. Since no anonymous remailers exist within the country, the origin of this traffic can be determined, and the sources can be prosecuted for use of an anonymous remailer.
Perhaps not. The US user could send an encrypted message to a foreign machine that offers, say, 100 different services, including a remailing service. You could not prove that the sender had requested a remailing and thus he could not be prosecuted. You could even randomly invoke one of the other services whenever a remail is requested. Other services might include ftpmail, archie searches etc... - Andy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew Brown Internet <asb@nexor.co.uk> Telephone +44 115 952 0585 | | PGP 2.6ui fingerprint: EC 80 9C 96 54 63 CC 97 FF 7D C5 69 0B 55 23 63 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+