-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Gary Jeffers makes a post about "sufference" and "fortress" remailers.
SUFFERENCE REMAILER: a remailer whose operator is vulnerable to the State's gun argument.; FORTRESS REMAILER: A remailer whose physical location cannot be found. ; a remailer that does not require the consent of the State. ;
Sure there are fortress remailers, just become a government and run one yourself. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I don't see the use of discussing such far flung unrealistic remailers. In the "sufference" case: there is no such thing as a remailer that isn't vulnerable to the State's gun argument, unless you are a Highlander, or otherwise immortal (don't lose your head ;) And even then, your equipment isn't indestructible. As for not requiring consent, moving to another country is similar to chaining mail: now several governments have to collude to shut you down, and you hope that this offers more protection (much like hoping remailer operators don't get together to trace your steps). Sure, you could place a computer with satellite hookups and a power supply on a raft in the middle of the pacific and run your remailer from there - this kind of stuff may work for internal activities - but remailing implies communicating with the world: somebody has to supply you a feed, and they can be pressured if it is inconvenient to pressure you. I can however see (in the future) people running remailers on their personal net-connected machines, requiring digital postage. Hopefully the net good usage will outweigh the net bad, and thus remailers will be grudgingly tolerated. But this isn't any "fortress" remailing system. Thoth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLol3avFYvlqvuKtBAQFnowQAwbfOP45kwvo1qrri5IbraJ5P4JUmGJdr zMvbmMup8rjLxuZKGoGYmAWQQfXK03j/UdmHr7RV6hvQ5Z7Jpd5Zf88CFrMcl/HP UWUjXys6ZXqs0Q9FQAsITeCHJFDAIpk5UTRdrxu0BmQqfRSrX2+7Kim02D7Iatm7 E3krhjzupaQ= =vHXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----