Crimestoppers anon tip mailbox

17 Dec 2003

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Is anyone in a position to set up a cypherpunks CrimeStoppers mailbox (for
use through the remailers)?  You could set up a web-page with instructions
and a list of crimes for which there are rewards.
Someone already tried that. The cops got a copy of the WWW logs and 
started investigating everyone who'd looked at the WWW page...
Right - this was an abduction case in Florida, if memory serves.
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So at the 
least you'd need a bunch of anonymous WWW proxies as well.
I don't see that as a problem.  I'm about to set up at least one of these
myself, and I believe that there are others around - please correct me
if I'm wrong.

In any case, there needn't be a web page to do the actual reporting.
There can be web pages to advertise, and then a simple maildrop for
the tips.  You could even arrange that the maildrop send everything
to a remailer for delivery to a non-advertised address for an extra
layer of protection (in case someone forgot to use a remailer to send
the tip in the first place, or they screwed up in a way that revealed
their identity).

David C. Lambert
dcl@panix.com